Why are we dropping support for those devices? I honestly think that it is a bad choice to only support the newest devices because there are a lot of people that are using those devices. It honestly seems like a push to make people go out and get new devices. On Jan 13, 2014 9:44 AM, "Nicholas Skaggs" <[email protected]> wrote:
> News about changing supported devices for testing and development. In > short, the new nexus7 is going to be supported, while the old nexus 7 and > nexus 10 will be dropped. On the phone side, the older Galaxy Nexus is also > going to be dropped. > > I hope this helps those of you who own the newer nexus 7 and were keen to > help out! > > Nicholas > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Ubuntu > Core/Touch Android 4.4 support & touch engineering > platform/devices/hardware going forward Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:40:56 > +0100 From: Alexander Sack <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: > Ubuntu Phone > <[email protected]><[email protected]> > > Hi all, > > the Ubuntu Core - Phonedations team used their first days during this > new year to work on enabling the Android 4.4 enablement stack for our > Ubuntu Touch efforts. As moving our platform to a new Android baseline > means that we would have to reinvest into all currently supported > devices, it's time to look at what devices we want to focus on going > forward. > > Fast forward to the "Summary" section if you are just interested in > what targets will be supported/discontinued. Here is the way of > thinking and the decisions about what devices/platforms we will focus > on going forward: > > > 1. Ubuntu Engineering (UE) will make a strong push on the _emulator_ > during the month' ahead. Goal is to support the emulator for arm and > x86 as a _primary engineering platform_ for UE and our App Development > community. Once the emulator bits become available (stay tuned for > further announces) please take the time and start using the emulator > for everything you usually would do on the phone. We really want to > make the emulator a class A engineering platform for everyone and want > to hear about what works and what doesn't. Thanks! > > 2. Ubuntu Engineering (UE) will _continue to focus on the Nexus 4 > phone platform_ and will _not adopt the new Nexus 5 platform_ short > term (before 14.04 is out). We decided against moving to the latest > Nexus phone, because the switching costs were simply too high taking > our current engineering goals/agenda/needs for 14.04 into account. Of > course, once we are on android 4.4, enabling the Nexus 5 should be > relatively easy, so if anyone from community wants to adopt this baby, > please get in touch with me or the #ubuntu-touch team. > > 3. Ubuntu Engineering (UE) will _discontinue producing builds for the > Galaxy Nexus (maguro) phone_ to ensure we can really focus on the N4 > and emulator to polish and drive our Ubuntu Touch engineering agenda > towards 14.04. > > 4. Ubuntu Engineering (UE) will consolidate the supported tablet > device landscape and focus on making one device shine rather than > producing builds for all the NEXUS tablet platforms out there. The > platform chosen to be supported on our way to 14.04 is the NEW nexus 7 > device (razor). The chipset (same as the N4) and form factor were just > too compelling to not make the move; in turn, we will discontinue > producing builds for the old Nexus 7 (grouper) and the Nexus 10 > (manta). > > > Community Platforms > ================== > > Note, that while UE will by itself only invests in certain Nexus > platforms, we would be happy to explore how we can support skilled > community members that want to adopt one of the Nexus platforms > through infrastructure and to some degree know how and project > management services. So, if you feel you want to adopt one out of > Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7 (grouper), Nexus 10 (manta), please talk to me > and the #ubuntu-touch team .... > > > Summary > ========= > > The primary engineering platforms for the coming month' will be: > > 1. emulator armhf for phone and tablet > 2. emulator x86 for phone and tablet > 3. Nexus 4 (mako) for phone > 4. Nexus 7 (razor) for tablet > > > The following engineering platforms will get EOL'ed: > > 1. Nexus 7 (grouper) > 2. Nexus 10 (manta) > 3. Galaxy Nexus (maguro) > > > Timeline > ======== > > The move to Android 4.4 enablement is currently scheduled to happen > ASAP, with our tentative engineering goals indicating that everything > will be ready by end of January 2014. > > However, as always, we go as fast as we can and we don't plan to slow > down or firedrill on this one to artificially make an exact milestone > date. Meaning: don't be shocked if we suddenly end up being ready a > week earlier earlier or later. We will send more accurate info about > dates and infra downtime etc. roughly a week before, so stay tuned! > > > Public Live-Spreadsheet > ====================== > > Since the question about what phones/tablets we will support came up > frequently in recent weeks, UE wants to experiment with providing a > public live spreadsheet that will contain up-to-date data about our > hardware/platform support plans. If you find that useful and/or have > suggestions how to improve this even further, please let us know! > > - > https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au6idq7TkpUUdHE0RVFyb1lQYm5mYWp1Y0c3SlpZcnc#gid=0 > > Warning: please realize that while we like plans and usually try to > stick to them, things in this spreadsheet are by far not set in stone > and can change on short or even without notice ... so better don't > plan your business empire around this particular data without talking > to us first :). > > > Discussion > ========== > > Please keep the discussion on the channels below: > > - Mailing list: [email protected] > (https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/) > - IRC: #ubuntu-touch on irc.freenode.net > > > Thanks, > > - Alexander > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > >
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