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[Didier Roche <didrocks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Running on the finish line to continue improving ubuntu Touch image 
quality! Three images were built, and #299 is promoted! Those images 
contain two critical bugs fixed in since yesterday! We will surely get 
higher than #300 for the (hopefully) next Touch image which will go to a 
stable channel. Stay tune and hold your breath (well, not for very long ;))

#298:
- unity8 bug fix for the greeter which didn't unlock when clicking on a 
notification for answering a call or a sms.
- dropped click update manager, system-image is the click updater tool now!
- new facebook, gmail and twitter webapps
- multiple ubuntu-keyboard bug fixes

#299:
- don't show keypad screen when calling from address-book or messaging
- fix for activity header not disappearing in webbrowser-app after 
navigating to the activity screen
- calendar syncing data bug fixes
- multiple release of calendar, clock, dropping letters, music and 
weather application

-> automated tests results showed the same flaky AP tests list (see 
below). Dogfooding +1 on that one. It's now the latest and best ubuntu 
Touch image ever ;)

#300:
- fix for phone updates crashing when having some disabled u1 account

-> automated test for that version is under way as of now.


* Important bugs to look for:
** Music/Calendar bug (Qt event loop stopping when the device is 
suspend) (Kevin)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1292306
-> It wasn't released with latest Mir. Another Mir landing with the fix 
is under testing and progress (in a silo).

** New scopes performance needs to be improved (Kevin for unity8 and 
Thomas for unity-scopes-shell)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1297197
This explains most of the chopiness and some temporary lagginess we have 
seen in the Unity 8 UI past weeks with the new scopes (frames skipped 
while scrolling scopes and when switching between scopes).
-> First attempt to fix some of the jankiness is in the incoming unity8 
which is going to land in #301.
Thomas' team is going to look at the scope-shell side of it.

** New issue found while dogfooding:
Hyperlinks that request a new tab don't open (David)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1307735
-> This impact desktop as well as Touch. Investigation are in progress 
to get a fix/workaround/potential safe revert and kick an image as soon 
as possible. The issue is already in a promoted iamge.


* Issues not impacting on the user experience or whitelisted by QA as 
not a promotion blocker:
** qtubuntu crash causing the dialer app to crash (only during tests) 
(Bill)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtubuntu/+bug/1297900
-> Boiko has a branch for it which needs to be released once ready.

** Clock flaky test (Julien)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1307458
-> would be nice for QA to have a look at it, seems upstream won't be 
able to fix it soon.

** New dialer-app flaky test (Julien, Bill)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dialer-app/+bug/1303681
-> another flaky test appeared as well (added to the same bug, Lukasz 
analyzed and think it's the same). Upstream thinks it's due to the 
dialer-app crashes and are working on it.

* Adding an already mentioned flaky test:
** Autopilot test flakyness in test_add_photo (Julien, Bill)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gallery-app/+bug/1304950
-> opened last week and stroke back on #297.

* confirmed to be fixed:
** Greeter won't unlock when app raised by url dispatcher is already 
focused (Kevin)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1307489, which is 
as well https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dialer-app/+bug/1267624
-> Fixed and validated!


Let's get latest fixes in before getting a wonderful image tomorrow! 
Meanwhile, enjoy #299!
Cheers,
Didier