[PS] Release meeting 20012-09-14

[Alan Pope]

Week 37/2012

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* quantal
   - compiz 0.9.8.2 tagged but not uploaded, pending further testing
   - Lots of fixes for the next Unity release
   - Switch to explicit Q branches for Unity and Nux (lp:nux/3.0, 
lp:unity/6.0)

* precise
   - Unity SRU-2 released (in precise-proposed right now)

* oneiric
   - Unity and Unity-2D geis dependency rename pushed to distro

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

* FFEs:
   - 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1048992 
- Support for webapps in the indicator-appmenu package
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/761155 - movable launcher icons
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1043915 - home lens ordering
   - 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sources/+bug/1048600 
- Restore "Ubuntu Medium" weights in Ubuntu's binary .deb

* UIFEs:
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-asset-pool/+bug/1049594 - Unity 
lens category icons need update
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1049593 - Dash - Finesse the 
placement, movement and behaviour of the 12.10 Dash
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1047067 - 
workspace switcher layout needs adjustments
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1043915 - Home lens ordering

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

* compiz
1042323 -
[FFE] Port GTK Window Decorator to GSettings
1046701 -
Random test failures in CCSGSettingsBackendConcept
1045127 - Close from spread is unreliable
1004336 -
_itoa_word() from window.cpp:1989: Use of uninitialised value of size 8
1048551 - multiple GObject warnings if gtk-window-decorator is started 
without org.gnome.mutter being installed
1042552 -
Paint List is often full of 1x1 offscreen windows from gtk-window-decorator
1046190 -
Migration to gsettings doesn't migrate compiz/unity configurable keys to 
g-c-c and those keys doesn't work
1049100 -
Build failure if COMPIZ_DISABLE_PLUGIN_RESIZE=ON
1037411 -
[regression][DRI] SubBuffer rendering is much slower in compiz 0.9.8.0 
than it was in 0.9.7
1039406 -
Benchmark default placement overlaps (damages) Unity launcher and panel, 
resulting in artificially low benchmark results
1045705 -
[quantal] [regression] Missing panel shadow in Unity 6.4

* unity (staging)
  1002260 - Dash and Hud get drawn correctly no matter which monitor the 
mouse is in..
  1043997 - Extended track play/pause mouse discovery for entire track row.
  1043825 - Implemented DBus interface for DashController and made 
HideDash() method available via DBus. Added autopilot test for it.
  1049008 - Adds the extra_text property to preview Action.
  1043277 1038944 - Fixed a layout flicker when first opening previews
  1049096 - Update sizing of elements to match designs, update assets
  1047420 - Fix crash in unity::dash::CoverflowResultView::Impl::Impl()
  1046795 - UnityShell: remove scale_highlighted_window_ variable, using 
scale's getSelectedWindow instead.
  923657 - Fixed dash dismissal when changing focus to a window on 
monitor external to that of the dash.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

-- 
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

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