Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Ubuntu Core/Touch Android 4.4 support & touch engineering platform/devices/hardware going forward

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Jack, I have a manta 10 (in fact I'm using it to test right now), so I 
know the pain. However, I'm most excited about the emulator. It will 
level the playing field for people who want to help test and contribute. 
I'm working on making it easy to use the emulator to help write and urn 
tests, and the engineering team is working on making the emulator better 
and easier to run. They want to make it the primary way to write and run 
things. This should open it up to even more people, which I am very 
excitied about. I know it's been hard for people to help out with ubuntu 
touch without a device. This should make the need for a device go away.

I can't speak to specifics about why they changed supported devices, but 
I assume it's because the hardware has aged and is difficult to get 
ahold of now, while also not being representative of "current" phablet 
devices. I'd encourage you to check out the thread and ask your 
questions directly there. The engineering team should be able to speak 
more directly about it.

Nicholas

On 01/13/2014 11:25 AM, Jack Ramsay wrote:
>
> I mean aren't we trying to get more people to help us? This is doing 
> exactly the opposite
>
> On Jan 13, 2014 10:23 AM, <james at fetzed.com <mailto:james at fetzed.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I agree this is a bad move would be  more support continuing with
>     older devices (which a lot) people still own.
>
>     Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Jack Ramsay <jack at troop55.net <mailto:jack at troop55.net>>
>     Sender: ubuntu-quality-bounces at lists.ubuntu.comDate: Mon, 13 Jan
>     2014 10:07:06
>     To: Nicholas Skaggs<nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
>     <mailto:nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>>
>     Cc: <ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto:ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com>>
>     Subject: Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Ubuntu Core/Touch Android
>     4.4 support &
>      touch engineering platform/devices/hardware going forward
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