[Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-07-06

[Sebastien Bacher]

=== What was done engineering wise? ===

  * Wrote some integration tests for different desktop components
  * Improved libusb-based USB CUPS backend a lot
  * A Software Updater redesign landed and the release upgrader was 
moved to its own package
  * Desktop SRUs for precise
  * Accessibility work unity and unity-panel-service
  * Unity 6.0 and Nux 3.0 release preparation (with the lenses transition).
  * New firefox,thunderbird beta version
  * Work on libreoffice 3.6 beta continued
  * Compiz on gsettings is getting ready
  * Uploaded x1.12 into ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
  * Working with debian on making libdrm_nouveau new and old abi 
parallel installable using f17's patch
  * Working upstream on dma-buf synchronisation problem
  * lightdm,system compositor work is ongoing
  * some GNOME updates
  * software-properties port to python3 got uploaded

=== What's about to land that might impact the other teams and release 
as a whole? ===

  * there should be an upload of the new unity serie soon in quantal but 
it shouldn't create any problem
  * compiz on gsettings should be uploaded which will unblock some 
gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon work, should really have an 
impact either though but still worth mentioning ;-)


=== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ===

  * No specific list yet for quantal

=== Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items, 
release wide concerns? ===

  * None