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[Didier Roche <didrocks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

A special edition today of the landing team email with the copy of the 
release note as we promote and move #302 to the stable channel today 
(marked as #11). We got some unexpected firedrills until the very end, 
but where would be the fun without this? ;)

For completeness and what we saw in the last couple of images we kicked 
in today:
#301:
- multiple unity8 bug fixes (some scope optimization, carousel 
interaction with last image, preview widgets, new default background)
- several bug fixes for the touch settings and their tests
- sync monitor bug fixes for performance

#302:
- cherry-picks of webapps/oxide fixes to be able to open external links 
(important bugs from yesterday)
- some application crashing which had the consequence to crash unity8 as 
well.

AP test results showed the same flaky results as we are used to (had to 
relaunch some) and a very serious and systematic dogfooding was done by 
a lot of Touch team member in parallel. Unfortunately, Murphy's law 
being Murphy, the whole CI lab device connection went down half-way 
during the tests. We did run manually all AP remaining + the flaky AP 
tests on the dashboard to ensure we don't regress and almost everything 
is fortunately passing (after some rerun sometimes and we get some 
random crashes in qmlscene while dealing with alarms in clock app 
unrelated to latest images, so we release note them)!
Consequently, all lights are green and we were ready to copy #302 to the 
stable channel. People on officially supported device running that 
stable channel will upgrade from a saucy-based Touch image to a 
trusty-based one.

Very well done everyone! Even if this is not the end of the story and 
people will continue to see growing features and changes on Touch, it's 
nice to have promoted a new image on the stable channel. Expect more to 
be promoted on that channel as well soon (and even with new features and 
performance improvements). Thanks to all of you who works tirelessly and 
is contributing in any manner on Ubuntu Touch. Let's continue rocking 
and deliver new goodness! Good easter holidays for most of you to get 
some really deserved rest. Next landing email will be on Tuesday :)


Announce from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_Touch:
As part of the wider Ubuntu 14.04 release efforts the Ubuntu Touch team 
is proud to make the latest and greatest touch experience available to 
our enthusiast users and developers.
While this Ubuntu Touch release is still not a supported release, we 
feel it is important to hand out a relatively "stable" build for wider 
testing and feedback while we are continuing with high velocity towards 
our going-to-market milestone late this summer. Also, while not product 
quality yet, this image is a big step forward feature-wise compared to 
our initial release done in October 2013, so we hope you will enjoy 
using this on your phone and tablet.

Cheers,
Didier