Ubuntu GNOME packaging 15.10
3.16 for Wily (15.10)
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Tim Lunn
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
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- Completed by
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*GNOME 3.16*
- Remaing core (gnome-
g-o-a bug 1466290 for XX series now
- nautilus, is WIP by ubuntu-desktop team
- gedit, still needs UI patches for unity
- gnome-control-
- Bluez5 transition (DONE)
- Feature Freeze is August 20th so most of the above needs to happen by then.
- New GNOME apps
*General Packaging work*
- Package up the new artwork assets for artwork team, preferably before UI Freeze September 10th (Done)
- Finalise details of default apps for wily and update seeds. (Done)
- split gnome-getting-
*automated image testing*
- A community based effort has been started to get the ubiquity autopilot tests running again on the daily images
- Need to make sure any Ubuntu-GNOME specific issues are fixed
- However there is extra work in generally fixing autopilot needed if people are interested in contributing to this.
*gnome-software preview*
- It would be good to have a preview of this in 15.10 with a possible view to switching in 16.04
- Requires DEP-11 metadata, the Kubuntu team are working on this. Which should be available this cycle
- Requires Packagekit 1.0, bug 1470655, may not happen this cycle
- Requires switching to PackageKit aptcc backend instead of aptdaemon. That may affect ubuntu-
- aptcc needs to grow support for what-provides locale()
- Could potentially be staged on a ppa, later in the cycle.
*GNOME 3.18*
- As usual this will be available on gnome3-staging PPA later in the cycle
- So far a bunch of the core bits are available now. Most of the apps etc, will follow well after we pass feature freeze
*Packaging infrastructure work*
- These are all wishlist items, most of the them have been on the cards for quite a while, but for the most part no existing members have had
time to work on them. Would mostly require python and very little packaging knowledge.
- Autopkgtests for uploads to the gnome3-team PPA's (This could potentially be integrated with the community image testing project for all
flavours to take advantage off)
- git packaging branches for gnome3-team PPA, There are a bunch of scripts already done for this, but requires some tweaks and the actual
migration to happen.
- Jenkins CI testing for the above git branches
- Using live-build to generate daily images based from wily/gnome3-staging PPA
- autopilot smoketest to make sure gnome-shell started successfully (this would be hosted on ubuntu jenkins instance)