Desktop Team Updates - Monday 10th January 2022

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

Last update’s notes are here: Desktop Team Updates - Monday 20th December 2021

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Desktop Installer

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WSL

  • Updated Subiquity submodule in Ubuntu-Desktop-Installer to the latest.
  • Submitted the Launcher project Q&A CI workflow for review.
  • Investigated interoperability strategies with the launcher to implement the splash screen in Flutter.
  • Starting the development of the splash screen subproject.
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Off Monday

  • Fixing up snaps on github (the ubuntu/gnome-* ones). making progress with the spreadsheet. I would like to be “all done” bringing these snaps up to date by the end of the week.
    • This led to a rabbithole down a gjs path when fixing up gnome-characters… There is a bug in libmozjs causing the issue. It’s been fixed in upstream debian so now we’re applying the fix in the platform snap and had to make sure to use the right lib in the gnome-chars snap.
  • data analytics: worked with person on IS to sort my access issues to the data analytics systems. watched some videos on manipulating psql data and how it interacts with influx to gain a better understanding of the environment. Still struggling to get the data into google sheets or data studio but plan to resolve it this week.
  • brainstorming with Britt and Monica on ubuntu on air content. Got Cassidy and Paul lined up for the January Indaba that will be on theming.
  • LO 7.3.0 deb testing
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  • Added tests to ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon.
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  • one day only back to work, mostly spent catching up with things
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  • ADsys
    • Initial scripts support
    • Support metadata with various stragegy
    • Finish Default -> Empty transition in Windows policy.
  • MIR
    • various reviews, still some to catchup
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firefox24 firefox

  • fixed beta armhf build failures by cherry-picking a series of upstream commits/patches
  • prepared RC builds for 96.0, to be released today

thunderbird24 thunderbird

  • uploaded 91.5.0+build1 to jammy

chromium22 chromium

  • updated stable to 97.0.4692.71
  • updated dev to 98.0.4758.9
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