tech board agenda item for bug 1585362

[Kevin Gunn]

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 <kevin.gunn at canonical.com> 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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