Hello > Weird thing now is that we still don't have any official directions > and timelines >
Of course we have timelines now. As Pat McGowan wrote today [1] > There are new milestones defined > on https://launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image > <https://launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image>, you can see > the main focus is now on Xenial (which is the basis for Ubuntu Core 16 > that we will use), and there are milestones assigned to Ubuntu > Personal images which also encompasses the work for the Unity8 session > on classic Ubuntu. > > How you can help is an excellent question, we certainly want to > transition the click apps to snaps hence the earlier message to app > developers. We will have more stable *test* images soon (for amd64 VMs > and PC, and arm64 M10, we also have "kiosk" images for dragonboard and > R-Pi in progress) which should allow us to pick up the pace of the > transition. There is also the Unity8 session on classic desktop > available now but it also needs to stabilize. I agree with you on this: > Well, I just wanted to highlight that it is really an Ubuntu > convergence project, which is a parent to Ubuntu personal, desktop, > IoT and so on. Ubuntu phone got many things done already, and now we > need the other projects to catch up. This is why I'm not expecting any > new cool features to my Aquaris E4,5 in the nearest future (if at > all). I am not concerned about the phone being discarded in terms of > support, as this is already an aging device. I also have E4.5 and I'm perfectly fine that it may not be updated to snaps. - I don't either get why there is so much hate in the comments section of omgubuntu website. It doesn't state that the project is dead but a bunch of people only red the title and went straight into comment section to "celebrate", scream out their rage etc. We should fight this misinformation thats floating around. Cheers, Filip. W dniu 06.01.2017 o 21:30, Marcin pisze: > > I had scraps of the information pointing to that on several accounts > now - on the Ubuntu community QA [0], Google plus page [1] and even on > the Ubuntu podcast [2]. It was not kept secret at all. > > Weird thing now is that we still don't have any official directions > and timelines, and people start to tend to think it means the project > is being killed. > > Well, I just wanted to highlight that it is really an Ubuntu > convergence project, which is a parent to Ubuntu personal, desktop, > IoT and so on. Ubuntu phone got many things done already, and now we > need the other projects to catch up. This is why I'm not expecting any > new cool features to my Aquaris E4,5 in the nearest future (if at > all). I am not concerned about the phone being discarded in terms of > support, as this is already an aging device. I am also relieved, that > there are plans (or at least rumors) that M10 can have a life after snaps. > > Backwards compatibility is a killer, when you realized that what you > did so far was not enough to keep pace (click packages?) or just > purely wrong in the architecture design (click packages?). > > Writing an entirely new system, while trying to be backwards > compatible with the old considered broken is a terribly bad idea. I'm > actually happy that Ubuntu folks are saying - /we tried, failed (click > is sleeping, but won't wake up), learned and now implement things as > they should be (snaps). Then we can build upon that./ > > I'm waiting for the snap based system, and a new phone coming along > with that. Dual SIM preferrably ;) > > [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5B31hmY8HQ > [1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111350780270925540549 > [2] http://ubuntupodcast.org/ > > On 01/06/2017 09:02 PM, Mitchell Reese wrote: >> And people wonder why Canonical was silent? (apart from Christmas and >> New Year break) EVERY tidbit of information here is picked up by >> social media, 'the press', and everyone else to extrapolate this >> project... How tedious... >> >> I run multiple theatre projects, community and professional, with >> various funding partners. Not announceing before checking with them >> is common courtesy. Sometimes that means keeping thnigs under my hat. >> >> According to omg ubuntu - their click-bait headline points to the >> Ubuntu Touch project dying. What a clusterfuck... >> >> Mitchell >> >> > > -- > -- > Pozdrawiam, > > Marcin Waśko > > -- 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
