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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

silo up for testing
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/landing-020/
(packages should be for unity8 & ubuntu-touch-session...just in case it
moves/changes silo)

If this tests well, we can potentially land tomorrow
br,kg


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> A couple of weeks ago we landed what we refer to as the "split greeter".
> "Split greeter" was in effect removing or "splitting" out the greeter from
> the unity8 shell process and into it's own process. This feature is needed
> for disk encryption, as well as secure multi-user support.
>
> After landing we've identified a handful of knock-on problems, mostly
> around synchronization, listed here
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-greeter-session-broadcast/+bug/1328187
> as well as a large increase in memory consumption.
>
> However based on some discussions across engineering teams & product
> management, its been resolved this isn't a requirement in the RTM time
> frame and we feel that its best to revert this feature in order to rethink
> the architecture in order to better address the issues we've revealed in
> our first attempt to deliver this feature, post RTM.
>
> I'll send another mail out when we've got the revert up in a silo for
> testing.
> br,kg
>