You have been subscribed to a public bug: as discussed on ubuntu-devel on Jun 27 '13 "Ubuntu graphic stack roadmap update" [1] and on ubuntu-devel on Aug 9 '13 "Xmir news" [2] we are intending to make unity-system-compositor (aka xMir) default in Ubuntu 13.10
After taking all the provided feedback into account, talking to Steve Langasek as representative of the release team and Didier Roche as representative of the Ubuntu Desktop team we have laid out following plan and criteria to make that switch (also in [2]): 1) no FFe for xMir, all relevant features (multimonitor support, composite bypass, fallback to X) need to be ready by FF on 8/29 2) unity-system-compositor - the package which enables xMir - will stay in universe until we have decided to make it part of the default Ubuntu 13.10 installation 3) unity-system-compositor and the related stack (xorg, drivers, mesa, mir) will have to have autolanding enabled and autolanding needs to be gated by integration tests, all relevant packages need to be available in archive prior to Feature Freeze 4) a set of Acceptance Criteria (referenced in [2], explicitely stated in [3]) must be available and met before unity-system-compositor can become default 5) the latest date for unity-system-compositor to become default is prior to Final Freeze 9/19 when all outstanding issues are addressed we believe that fulfilling these 5 items will provide confidence to allow for that change. Current Status as of 8/28: ad 1) Multimonitor and bypass are scheduled to land in trunk/archive in time for FF ad 3) all related packages are in archive and autolanding is enabled since late July ad 4) we have not received further feedback on the suggested (8/9) Acceptance Criteria and will be able to fulfill all the defined criteria. In order to improve quality, we have run a call for testing on 8/26 - 8/28 for MultiMonitor and have not seen any unexpected results. Performance numbers as requested by the Acceptance Criteria are published publicly at http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/graphics/ and we have plans in place to address systems that might show >10% performance penalties Please consider this an early heads up for the release team, we will turn this into an official "FeatureFreeze for bugfix-only updates" [4] prior to Final Freeze on 9/19 when we are meeting all outlined criteria. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037401.html [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-August/037572.html [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10AcceptanceCriteria [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_bugfix-only_updates ** Affects: unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [FFE] turning on unity-system-compositor as default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1218097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
