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      <pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * More bug and usability fixing on the new 5.0 branch, with 31 tasks finished so far. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/5.0.0">https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/5.0.0</a>

 * Coverity Sprint finishing this week, to complement the capabilities of the test platform.
 * Pending resolution of the AP bug, the test suite still does not run automatically
 * Good progresses on the Compiz test sutie with a lot new tests finally implemented

 * And last but not least, an SRU release has been wrapped for both Unity and Compiz. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/unity/4.0/4.26.0">https://launchpad.net/unity/4.0/4.26.0</a> for details of the bug fixes. Those 2 releases are being uploaded into the destkop-team/ppa for testing, but won't go into proposed to avoid problems during the end of year break.

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

 * Nothing this week
 * Unity updates for Precise will now land in the PPA up to the 1st week of January, where a release is planned, just prior to the Budapest Rally.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

 * None

== Blueprints ==

 * New blueprint: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-multi-monitor">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-multi-monitor</a> (tracking items shared between DX and Desktop/Platform)
 * New blueprint: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/dx-p-unity-enhancements">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/dx-p-unity-enhancements</a>, which is provisioned with bugs on the DX/Design radar at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.canonical.com/~platform/design/upstream.html">http://people.canonical.com/~platform/design/upstream.html</a>

Burndown and spec completion levels:

 * For alpha-2: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team-precise-alpha-2.html">http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team-precise-alpha-2.html</a>
 * Entire cycle: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team.html">http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team.html</a>

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

23 unity-distro-priority bugs fixed so far.

See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-distro-priority">https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-distro-priority</a> for referenc</pre>
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David Barth
Engineering Manager, Desktop Experience Team
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