NattyReleaseStatus
General status
We're now in the run up to beta-1: 11.04 beta burn-down chart, in bug fixing mode (http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/unity-stats/)
Feature Freeze Exception Requests
datetime menu support for browsing calendars (726531)
ALT-F2 (580295)
places a11y (731403)
overlay scrollbar (730740)
multi-touch support in Unity (depends on other MT FFEs, XXX)
- Note: old FFEs made out-of-scope:
- compiz dialog style (plugin only, but too late as it may impact the decorator)
- places scrollbar (njpatel: it’s too late to do this)
bamf transient API (https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/664711)
appmenu FS case (https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/591189)
- compiz mandatory plugins (does that need an FFE?)
Unity
Critical/High Milestoned Bugs, ie "bugs on our radar":
Priority buglist for Unity: https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.8
incl. priority buglist for Compiz: http://tinyurl.com/4qxmtrx (tag:unity)
incl. priority buglist for Nux: http://tinyurl.com/5tv8tjj (tag:unity.priority)
incl. priority buglist for GL drivers: http://tinyurl.com/399644s (X team inbound bug queue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bugs?field.tag=natty)
Of note this week:
- The Unity team is on fire, with
41 bugs fixed on Thursday! See https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.6.4
on top of the 30 others fixed on Monday https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/3.6.2
- lots of a11y fixes, but places was not at reach this week
overlay scrollbar got a priority increase: we're working at full speed to fix bugs we see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-scrollbar/+bugs and got support from QA & Platform in general to get more user testing
Unity Foundations
Critical/High Milestoned Bugs, ie "bugs on our radar":
General status:
0.6.3 indicator-sound released: Fast Forward/Rewind working nicely when you keep either previous or next pressed from either the mouse or keyboard, icons for playlist menu items are now fixed (Banshee is the client that exports icon names for now) and a new dbus method to complete the blacklist dbus api (to help clients adapt properly to the preferred behaviour outlined in the spec) and few other fixes (https://launchpad.net/indicator-sound/+milestone/0.6.3).
- A lot of bug fixing on dbusmenu and indicators
- Feature Freeze Exceptions:
- Unity Place Applications received a lot of attention
- Landing the Alt-F2 work by didrocks
- Highly improved latency of searches
- Improved relevancy ranking of searches
- Showcasing random apps from Software Center
- Zeitgeist FTS Extension got a long waited fix extending the capabilities of the event filtering mechanism which was required in order to filter out applications from searches in the files place
- Dee ABI+API stability since 0.5.12 (released Monday) also with a range of new functionality to help optimize the Unity shell(s) and place daemons alike
QA
General status:
Working with QA & HW Cert teams to gather GL driver support matrix
- First results from the HW cert team campaign with 10 representative configurations: 8/10 OK, 2 nvidia installation problems under investigations