[Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-01-27

[Martin Pitt]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * New X.org 1.11 stack landed; the initial batch missed two nvidia packages, but these were fixed promptly. This went pretty smooth.
 * libindicator ABI change transition, went smoothly.
 * Land rewritten check-language-support, which is much faster and more robust. Create an aptdaemon plugin with it which now automatically installs corresponding language support together with newly installed software.
 * Create scripts to check system and user configuration migration in LTS->LTS updates, now integrated into Jenkins.
 * Land libgnome-keyring and libxklavier introspection.
 * Land fix for unnecessary notify-osd wakeups, through a libwnck API addition.
 * Lots of pm-utils bug fixes and further power consumption tweaks.
 * Update selected GNOME components to 3.3.2.
 * Land major new webkit version; this was tested pretty thoroughly with Ubiquity, software-center, and other software. Please yell if you see regressions in HTML rendering anywhere.
 * The first set of Unity configuration settings are now exposed in control-center.
 * Test and tweak Unity-2D for Qt 4.8, which landed recently.
 * Finished preparations for switching OpenJDK to the new at-spi2 stack.
 * Refine https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/ReleaseProcess

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

 * New compiz release coming soon, was held back because of a startup crash and FTBFS.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

None.

== New Desktop Release Notes ==

 * When installing new software through software-center, corresponding language support packages (translations, spell check modules particulat to that software, help files, etc.) are now installed along automatically. This removes the need to open "Language Support" after installing new software.

== Blueprints ==

Cleaned up alpha-2 work items. None of the remaining ones are a blocker for
alpha-2, and can be moved to beta-1 easily.

http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-desktop-team-precise-alpha-2.html

== Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored ==

 * Bug:712677 ''[Does not report crashes during "Install Ubuntu" installs]'': Fixed in bzr now, needs uploading.
 * Bug:790240 ''[at-spi needs demotion for precise]'': Patch is tested and ready, sent to Matthias Klose for integrating into next upload.
 * No progress on the other bugs.


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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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