[Desktop] Release Report 2013-01-11

[Sebastien Bacher]

(that report doesn't cover the Unity nor Xorg sides)

team chart: 
http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-raring/canonical-desktop-team.html

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

  * libreoffice 4 for raring is still in the work
  * libreoffice 3.5.7 SRU for precise being prepared (including some 
extra patches to backport)
  * new indicator-bluetooth is ready for upload
  * chromium updates on the work
  * firefox 18 update
  * New Unity Greeter with a fix for visual corruption while loading desktop
  * Fixed a data corruption issue in duplicity, SRUs pending
  * Merged GwibberGtkEntry and related widgets into friends as 
FriendsGtkEntry
  * Lots of API updates for libfriends, finalizing API before landing in 
raring
  * Created cups-browsed, a daemon which browses the Bonjour broadcasts 
of shareed CUPS printers on remote machines and creating local CUPS 
queues pointing to these printers, replacing the former CUPS 
broadcasting/browsing.
  * CUPS: Split CUPS daemon off into an extra binary package, so for 
mobile systems one can use a 1-MB printing stack of cups-daemon, 
libcups2, and cups-browsed, to only get remote CUPS printers 
automatically and print on them, all the rest of the printing stack is 
for local printers with drivers
  * Updated to latest orca release, and adjusted ubiquity and 
unity-greeter to not use command-line flags that Orca no longer supports.
  * Started debugging non-working audio on nexus7, at least via the 
speaker, am yet to try headphones.
  * Starting to put all necessary stuff together for the testing of 
PulseAudio 3.0 by QA/community.
  * continued the appmenu refactoring work

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

  * Nothing

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

  * http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-raring/ is falling behind, part of 
it is due to the holidays but it might also be sign we should start 
descoping some specs...


Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher