Hi all - is there anyone monitoring this mail list for agenda items? or am I in the wrong place? or is there a different process from the one I'm following on the wiki? br,kg
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Kevin Gunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings tech board members, > We have a topic from bug 1585362 [1] that has been requested to be > reviewed & resolved by the tech board. > > Backstory is that we are wanting to promote community use of unity8 on the > desktop form factor to increase dogfooding & generally promote unity8 as > the replacement for unity7. > Unity8 as a desktop experience is installed via a package named > unity8-desktop-session-mir. Believing that many folks will continue to use > Xenial/16.10 as it is LTS, today upon installation they experience the > unity8/mir (and other related sw) releases circa April 2016. Instead we > desire users to experience the latest and greatest unity8/mir platform by > adding the stable-phone-overlay ppa as part of the installation of this > package. And to have that installation experience be a single shot (rather > than having an additional step of adding repositories) > > To address concerns around package policy, the stable-phone-overlay ppa is > the official delivery mechanism for all of our mobile form factors, so any > software landing in this ppa has been tested by Canonical engineering and > Canonical QA. All of the software in this ppa technically backed by > Canonical, this is not unknown third party software. > > Also, the ppa is named stable-phone-overlay but should just simply be > stable-overlay. We are driving a shift in thinking within Canonical, we are > delivering high quality software on all form factors - for experience on > both desktop and mobile devices. So there is some additional soft cultural > benefit here for engineers building out the unity8 experience. > > Please let me know which tech board meeting date this will be discussed. > I realize there is one very soon (like an hour from now), but wasn't sure > of how late topics could be added. > Thanks for the help. > br,kg > > [1] > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session/+bug/1585362 >
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