[Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-03-16

[Martin Pitt]

== What was done engineering wise? ==
 * Finally released the Unity 5.6 stack, with a few follow up fixes for broken Alt key.
 * Land new indicator upstream bug fix versions.
 * Updated GNOME to 3.3.91. 
 * Start new oneiric-proposed language pack update/test cycle.
 * Fixed a few more a11y related issues in dbusmenu, menus should work fine now.
 * Lots of bug fixing across the desktop.

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

Unity 2D and 3D will get some bigger multi-monitor related changes. Please see Bug:50136 and Bug:954175 for details.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

None.

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

under investigation:
 * Bug:907818 ''[Bluetooth is not fully re-initialized when rfkill switch is toggled]'': Debugging made some progress, no fix yet.
 * Bug:931967 ''[Corrupted graphics after the login until the unity launcher appears]'': New on the radar this week, debugging going on.

triaged/in progress:
 * Bug:844044 ''[Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option]'': Support for showing network login has landed in trunk, but not shown by default yet -- still going back and forth with design team
 * Bug:872701 ''[Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]'': No progress this week.
 * Bug:932598 ''[Full hard drive causes xorg and lightdm to fail to load]'': Fixed mountall to create tmpfs /tmp on full disk, as earlier Ubuntu releases used to do. lightdm still needs a fix.
 * Bug:870297 ''[lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp]'': No progress this week.
 * Bug:899858 ''[regression in gvfs to connect/browse using obex]'': Debugging made progress, faulty version and patch identified. No fix yet.

Fix committed, but not uploaded yet:
 * Bug:916291 ''[failed to upgrade from Oneiric to Precise: ERROR: Cannot determine language!]''

Fixed since last report:
 * Bug:868400 ''[Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running]''
 * Bug:918791 ''qemu-kvm dies when using vmvga driver and unity in the guest''

== Release Notes ==

Nothing new since last week.

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