<div dir="ltr">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?<div>br,kg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Kevin Gunn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.gunn@canonical.com" target="_blank">kevin.gunn@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings tech board members,</div><div>We have a topic from bug 1585362 [1] that has been requested to be reviewed & resolved by the tech board.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know which tech board meeting date this will be discussed.</div><div>I realize there is one very soon (like an hour from now), but wasn't sure of how late topics could be added.</div><div>Thanks for the help. </div><div>br,kg</div><div><br></div>[1] <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session/+bug/1585362" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session/+bug/1585362</a></div>
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