Hi Iain, On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:09:33PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (ish, we don't plan to > have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the > Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for > the touch project.
> The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use > to figure out the work that's required to make a desktop product based > on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to > figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration. We > still plan to migrate pieces of the current desktop over, but we are > very mindful of the need to not destabilise the desktop and upset its > users, and are hopeful that developing this flavour in parallel will > mean that migrations will truly happen when software is ready instead of > as a result of pressure to get work into the hands of users early. > There are still many unanswered questions, not least of which is any > treatment of click packages. That's fine. Here I am just keen to get > something up and running; many changes will be necessary and we can make > them as we go along. > The reason I'm mailing the release list is because I need help in > getting the flavour built. My initial work is in > ppa:ubuntu-desktop/unity8-flavour (seed branch > lp:~laney/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-unity8.utopic). Here are the questions I > have right now: Instead of a separate seed branch for this, I recommend making this part of the standard Ubuntu seeds at lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.utopic. I don't see any reason that we would want this maintained independently of the existing Ubuntu seeds / existing ubuntu-meta package, which is what a separate branch would imply. > - I feel like the name "ubuntu-unity8" isn't very good, because that's > the name of a piece of software already so it could get confusing. I > thought of "ubuntu-touch-desktop", but bikeshedding (meant in a nice > way) appreciated. I find the name 'ubuntu-unity8' better than 'ubuntu-touch-desktop', especially since the 'Ubuntu Touch' name is more or less deprecated (and this isn't an image targeted at touchscreen devices anyway). How about 'ubuntu-next-desktop'? Hopefully not too many people will assume this implies a Display Postscript engine. > - Do we have the resources to build another flavour? If you mean computing resources, yes, definitely; we're well below the all-time high water mark for images being built. If you mean human resources, well, I think we'd better find them so that we can move forward with Unity :-) > - Most importantly, I don't know all of the places that need to be > touched to enable daily builds. I'm happy to do all of the work that > I have access to do, but could someone who knows how this all fits > together please point me to the places that need to know about a new > flavour? - lp:ubuntu-cdimage (incl. etc/crontab) - lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk (maybe) - upload ubuntu-meta And that should be it, given that we shouldn't need a new packageset here. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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