[Systems] Release Meeting 2012-03-02

[Andrea Cimitan]

Reporting only sections worth mentioning, no issues or blocked items.

=== What was done engineering wise? ===
* light-themes
  - Major refinements and unfocused window theme will land soon
* unico
  - fixed various bugs and valgrind errors, package will land soon
* indicators
  - LIM work. Fixed missing menu items and applications launching without menus
  - libindicator: Support FD.o desktop actions spec
  - BAMF: Fix bug in libbamf causing HUD service to crash
* printing
  - Released new bannertopdf with some fixes and the new printer test page
* gnome-control-center
  - Sound settings profiles logic revisited. Seems to be coherent now.
* utouch
  - Sent out patches for clickpad detection to ubuntu-kernel team, merged
  - Relicensed xorg-gtest under X.org preferred license
  - Reviewed and applied patches for xorg-gtest from community
  - Sent patches for xorg-macros for C++ support
  - Started various bug fixing throughout the utouch stack
  - Developed automated test suite, almost ready for merging
  - documentation improvements to utouch-geis
  - More work porting unity to utouch-geis v2
   -- Daniel's branch has feature parity with current unity
   -- Starting on implementing more gestures

=== Summary of bugs ===
* indicators
  - #833337, #939061, #939058
  - indicator-sound:
   -- #771202, #939929 for this weeks release
   -- #900117. #927733, #933359, #882109, last week release
* utouch
   - #937021 Geis subscription touch grabs need to check for failure
   - #934207 gesture rejection has ne effect
   - #934398 "angle" gesture attribute doesn't contain expected values
   - #921633 geis_new() needs a synchronous mode
   - #934160 libutouch-geis-doc doesn't contain public API
   - #939679 Subscription without any filters does not work
   - #942625 "Unity hangs when touching my touchpad/trackpad

=== QA ===
* More builds building in Jenkins

=== Next week ===
* Bugfixing parties across indicator and utouch teams!
* utouch
  - Disable clickpad behavior by default
  - Propose geis accept/reject as a FFe
  - More gesture implementation in unity

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List of remaining exceptions, UIFe went ok.

=== FFe ===
* Locally integrated menus
  - indicator-appmenu side
  - will fall under the FFe for LIM being filed by Unity Shell team
* GMenuModel support in HUD/Appmenus
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/924007
  - Would you formally apply a FFe to this?
* Improved support for XUL applications
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/921231
  - Would you formally apply a FFe to this?
* Disable overlay scrollbars for accessibility
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/934123
  - It's quite important for being a LTS, should be in 12.04
* Geis grail gesture accept/reject
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/utouch-geis/+bug/934207
  - Not "required", but really needs to be in 12.04
  - Will be proposed next week

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Congrats all for the work done so far for Beta 1!