Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 26th August 2024

vanvugt · August 26, 2024, 8:38am

Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse.

Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 19th August 2024

vanvugt · August 26, 2024, 8:44am

Answering bug reports for days. Jammy’s new 6.8 kernel seems to be a factor because all display bugs come to the desktop team first. And Oracular testing week happening at the same time has made it a very busy one. Backlog stats are here.
Helped Devices Engineering with Wayland support for Kria in Noble.
Still trying to verify the Noble lock screen crash SRU.
Fixed bogus tags in monitors.xml (after 47.beta but before 47.0).
Uploaded more patches to Mutter 47.beta for Oracular because the Nvidia black screen issue couldn’t really wait.
Proposed a frame clock refactor to help resolve one of the triple buffering code reviews.
Preparing and hosting engineering interviews. Join us!

jbicha · August 26, 2024, 5:03pm

Nearly finished the rust-gtk4 0.9 (GNOME 47) transition in Ubuntu 24.10. This took most of my time last week.
Started the rust-gtk4 transition in Debian Unstable
Did the first gtksourceview3 upload in 5 years to fix a GCC-14 build failure, but things really should switch to gtksourceview4 instead which still uses GTK3
Enabled greater sysprof integration for 3 libraries in Debian Testing. Filed a Feature Freeze Exception to copy that work into Ubuntu 24.10.
Began undoing the libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd transition in Ubuntu since it depends on a libimobiledevice-glue MIR that looks unlikely to be approved before Ubuntu 24.10 is released.

Across the team

GTK4 4.15.5 landed in Ubuntu 24.10 today after a team effort to fix test issues
Sponsored Nathan’s gcc-14/t64 build fix for gnome-calendar
Alessandro joined Canonical’s Desktop Team 2 months ago and has been making a big impact. Last week he fixed several gcc-14 build failures in desktop packages, worked with the Security Team to land an exfatprogs security fix for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and verified several desktop-related SRUs in time for Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (which will be released soon!)