[FFE][UIFE]Dash - Finesse the placement, movement and behaviour of the 12.10 Dash

Can we have some more information about what changes you're making?

You'll be asking the doc team to retake their screenshots of the dash for this feature, so please consider again whether they are all crucial to include in 12.10, given where we are in the release cycle, then reply with information so that we can be better informed about what's being requested here.

Is there any chance of regressions? If so, what's the plan to deal with them?

When will you be able to land this, if approved?

I'm setting this to Incomplete, but please reset to New once you've supplied the information asked for. Thanks!

For unity-lens-photos: icon path changes.
It's not affecting the interface, as similar icons were provided by the lens package itself, the lens now depends on Unity for them.

photos> Is it already in the current Unity in Quantal? Don't forget to update the packaging to have the correctly versioned Depends.

17/09 17:28:41 <Laney> davidcalle: you said it depends on some change in Unity
17/09 17:28:51 <Laney> I want to know if that change is already in or if it's in a future Unity version
17/09 17:29:55 <davidcalle> Laney, the changes are in the Unity branches linked to the report, so not yet in Quantal.

So this depends on the rest of this FFe.

Moving back to triaged as John updated the description with the changes as requested.

Doc team and Translation team notifications by John Lea:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2012-September/016861.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2012-September/005590.html

Jeremy's reply is correct, this sprint was at a bad time and we were hit by the gsettings etc bits slowing down the landing of the previews. We'll fix this for 13.04 and have the sprint much earlier, sorry for the extra work at this time to both docs and translations team.

Matt Price (the lead copywriter at Canonical) has agreed to update the documentation with the latest Dash changes. A member of the documentation team will need to contact him to show him where the documentation lives andbrief him on the process for contributing to the documentation.

-1 from Docs for the reasons I stated at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2012-September/016862.html

I don't think that the Docs Team or the Release Team really have the time to evaluate 24 additional UI freeze exception items the day before DocumentationStringFreeze, Beta2Freeze, and 3 weeks after UI Freeze. A lot of our documentation work cannot start until the UI stops changing, and having the UI stop changing on the day that we have to stop writing docs puts us in an impossible situation.

I did talk with Matt and look forward to working with him in the future when we have more time available.

Have been in discussion with jbicha and dpm, plan agreed to is:
- Documentation String Freeze is going to move to 9/28 (Tuesday)
- Matt Price is going to help write the text to describe the new features, and docs team will edit into right places.
- David Planella will be sending out email summary to translation team summarizing areas NOT to focus on until after the new docs string freeze date.

Based on discussion with Laney, Didier, Neil, Alan, Olli plan is:
- Land this in PPA today, Alan's team testing today/tomorrow and providing feedback prior to upload.
- Neil has checked that all of the branches with "Needs fixing" have in fact been resolved.
- If no blockers found during testing, this will be uploaded to archive for beta 2 freeze.
- If significant issues found after upload, feature specific reversion will be done.
- Post mortem will be held to make sure this sort of situation does not reoccur in future.

Approved, subject to no significant issues being found in testing and it can land by beta 2 freeze.

Yes, +1 from the Docs Team if this can land by Beta2Freeze and we'll wrap up the screenshots this weekend.

Al 18/09/12 19:12, En/na John Lea ha escrit:
> Hi Documentation and Translation teams,
>
> We are currently in the process of finally landing the Dash work from
> this cycle. I know this is very late, but we are now making the final
> push to get everything landed into 12.10. The new 12.10 Dash will
> update some aspects of the overall Dash appearance.
>
> Ideally great if we could take new screenshots of the Dash and do a
> translation review of these changes when Beta2 arrives. However even if
> if is not possible to take new screenshots the structure of the Dash and
> the copy is broadly similar to the current Dash, so even if it is not
> possible to update the screenshots there should still not be any major
> issues.
>
> The bug that is landing these changes is
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1049593
>
> Apologies again for how late this is landing in the cycle, and thanks
> for your understanding.
>
> cheers,
> John
>

After a chat with Neil, the impact for translators will be just the
addition of the "More suggestions" string, which I think is ok in terms
of translations, considering the amount of changes. So +1 from translations.

I fully agree with Jeremy on his reply, though, in that these changes
should a) be properly be communicated in advance and b) land much
earlier in the cycle.

Working at Canonical myself, I have full understanding for everyone
working hard to meet the deadlines and provide the best OS experience
with the best features to our users. But in line with our philosophy and
our values, we should also make an additional effort to have plans in
place to avoid or mitigate any extra work from our awesome and dedicated
volunteer contributors.

Cheers,
David.

--
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com
www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella

This bug was fixed in the package unity-asset-pool - 0.8.24-0ubuntu2

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unity-asset-pool (0.8.24-0ubuntu2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - [FFE][UIFE]Dash - Finesse the placement, movement and behaviour
      of the 12.10 Dash (LP: #1049593)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:45:29 +0200