ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 May 2013 12:51:02 Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> And here's the summary for this week.
> 
> These are the things that have been going on:
> - When updating images, the users home and the network settings are backed
>   up and restored during updates so information is not lost while keeping
>   up to date (task to help out with making the devices a daily driver).
> - Update zip modified to call shell script for more versatibility.
> - Devices switched USB settings to adb only.
> - New fastboot and adb packages with the correct device IDs for udev,
>   package in archives for saucy and in ppa:phablet-team/tools for
>   precise and raring.
> - New Qt release, 5.0.2; qtwebkit was leftout due to DPR regressions[1].
> - Planning on migrating to saucy by default.
> - MTP code removed from git repos.
> - platform-api refactor almost complete, which will bring in application
>   lifecycle.
> - powerd work in progress to enhance battery life, with triggers such as
>   turning the screen off when idle and turn it on with incoming calls (also
>   part of the daily driver work).

Thanks Sergio. Interesting stuff (esp. the daily driver project).