ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[David Marceau <uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx>]

Oh my! I just updated devel-proposed r226 to r229.
It happened so fast, I could not believe it with my own eyes.
Less than 2 minutes.  I recall the boot up time being slower in r100.
That has obviously been improved by a great deal.   Hats off to the
Ubuntu-Phone TEAM!


On 03/10/2014 01:43 PM, Didier Roche wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> As a birthday present +1 day for some, we now finally have a promoted
> image. \o/ #226 is now the latest and best Touch image we ever had,
> featuring for the first time android 4.4 for dealing with hardware.
> 
> Dogfooding was positive and test results were stable with the known
> quirks. Now, full speed on getting Qt 5.2 ready before landing! This one
> should fix random crashers that can happen on the current images, bring
> a lot of performance improvements and new layout shininess for
> application developers. Last miles guys!
> 
> Meanwhile, we are back to green and resume landing as usual. We try to
> unblock big stacks landing even if they are supposedly locked by Qt 5.2
> for an ABI rebuild, just to get things moving (even if that means more
> work on our side). So, stay tune to see the new Mir soon in!
> 
> On the images themselves, here is what happened during the week-end:
> #227:
> - the image size is 30Mb smaller thanks to excellent work by (good bye
> gtk2, a number of codecs, some x11 binding…)
> - the fix that Oliver promoted on this mailing list to avoid getting mtp
> disconnections
> - still some mediascanner 2.0 preparation for the switch to new scope
> infrastructure
> - new libcolumbus for a new online search mode
> 
> #228:
> - no change from previous image
> 
> #229:
> - new clock app, unfortunately, we still have one AP test failing, but
> progress on the alarm front.
> 
> We have one test failing on mako but not other devices
> (http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/touch/mako/229:20140310:20140304/7070/ubuntu_clock_app/).
> Nicholas is looking at that one.
> Nicholas also is going to help landing the weather-app usptream fixes
> that occured during the week-end. This shoud help getting weather-app in
> a better shape.
> 
> Dogfooding on #229 is proceeding as we speak, results tomorrow morning
> (tests results are comparable to previous)
> 
> Enjoy #226!
> Didier
>