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Re: split greeter revert

 

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 11:19 -0500, Kevin Gunn wrote:
>
> 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
>
> It seems that most of the items there are things we already have work items
> for on the indicators, planned work this month. I went ahead and triaged the
> bug appropriately. Now there's always a chance that it won't get done (/me
> watches out for buses) but it seems like we should make a decision about
> their completeness at feature freeze, not necessarily before.

Remember we're not following feature freeze here, our main goal is RTM.

That's why we thought it'd be better to revert instead of trying to
get it fixed over the next few weeks, as the risk would be quite high.

> I'm probably bias, but for me disk encryption is a critical feature. Story
> about why:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/04/byte-my-encrypted-disk.html
>
> Would hate for us to spend all this time ensuring we have a good security
> story and miss it right at the end.

We'd love to have this feature supported as soon as we can, but as
it's not part of RTM, we want to try to get focused on the critical
bits for now.

Cheers,
--
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo


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