Good news. I'm headed out of town for the day, I'll get this loaded tomorrow and start testing. Alan O.
On Friday, July 4, 2014, Gerry Boland <gerry.bol...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm excited to announce that we have a silo ready for testing QtCompositor! > > We'd really appreciate as many people testing it as possible. > > To do so, follow the steps in this wiki page: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/QtComp > > This is a significant change so please give it a go and if you spot any > regressions, please report them (instructions in the wiki). > > Thanks! > -Gerry > > > > On 30/06/14 16:03, Kevin Gunn wrote: >> Hi all, >> First, thanks for reading & please consider participating in this testing. >> We've had the experience recently of having lower than desired >> participation in significant changes (split greeter anyone? :). We want to >> be systematic & only want to land QtCompositor plugged into Mir (QtComp for >> short) in the instance we're confident. This call for testing is a vehicle >> to help us do just that. >> >> Background... >> For some time now, the Mir & Unity UI team has been working on enabling the >> shell to plugin its own compositor as well as progressing on some of the >> advanced ui features that will leverage it. This will be used to support >> several key RTM features such as animations of applications in trusted >> sessions, moving to dash-as-app, and better handling of killed app ui shots >> in spread. As well as rotation, "splitstage" and other spread/sidestage >> animations. However, this landing is really to deliver QtComp with as much >> feature parity as possible, while leaving the more advanced features turned >> off as not to inject risk (for instance, we've got rotation almost fully >> working, but we want to keep that a separate landing-effort). >> >> The plan... >> Bear with me, duration of TRAINCON-0 might alter some of this. >> We are currently landing Mir0.4.0, once this happens we will move to have a >> ci-train silo for testing, target to have this by Friday July4 (altho >> possibly sooner). >> I will send a follow up mail when the silo is prepared (...I've sent this >> mail early so you can plan :) Given the nature of the change, we plan for >> the silo to be under test for a full week at a minimum. >> If you're willing to test, please follow the guidelines here >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/QtComp >> This wiki will continue to be updated through closure of the call for >> testing. >> We will land when we are finished testing and we are in a confident, >> non-regressed state on Ubuntu Phone. >> >> Feedback... >> In order to get a feel for the response, if you do test, please take time >> to add your name & mark which platform here >> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheets/d/1QcZOt9x_rY1m5d4NmmQ3FUjcWHKVoesMUv65Hm9VUK8 >> Note, the sheet is only to track participation, not bug tracking, please >> use bugs when appropriate, per the instructions in the wiki. >> >> br,kg >> >> >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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