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[Gerry Boland <gerry.boland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
I'm excited to announce that we have a silo ready for testing QtCompositor!

We'd really appreciate as many people testing it as possible.

To do so, follow the steps in this wiki page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/QtComp

This is a significant change so please give it a go and if you spot any
regressions, please report them (instructions in the wiki).

Thanks!
-Gerry



On 30/06/14 16:03, Kevin Gunn wrote:
> Hi all,
> First, thanks for reading & please consider participating in this testing.
> We've had the experience recently of having lower than desired
> participation in significant changes (split greeter anyone? :). We want to
> be systematic & only want to land QtCompositor plugged into Mir (QtComp for
> short) in the instance we're confident. This call for testing is a vehicle
> to help us do just that.
> 
> Background...
> For some time now, the Mir & Unity UI team has been working on enabling the
> shell to plugin its own compositor as well as progressing on some of the
> advanced ui features that will leverage it. This will be used to support
> several key RTM features such as animations of applications in trusted
> sessions, moving to dash-as-app, and better handling of killed app ui shots
> in spread. As well as rotation, "splitstage" and other spread/sidestage
> animations. However, this landing is really to deliver QtComp with as much
> feature parity as possible, while leaving the more advanced features turned
> off as not to inject risk (for instance, we've got rotation almost fully
> working, but we want to keep that a separate landing-effort).
> 
> The plan...
> Bear with me, duration of TRAINCON-0 might alter some of this.
> We are currently landing Mir0.4.0, once this happens we will move to have a
> ci-train silo for testing, target to have this by Friday July4 (altho
> possibly sooner).
> I will send a follow up mail when the silo is prepared (...I've sent this
> mail early so you can plan :) Given the nature of the change, we plan for
> the silo to be under test for a full week at a minimum.
> If you're willing to test, please follow the guidelines here
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8/QtComp
> This wiki will continue to be updated through closure of the call for
> testing.
> We will land when we are finished testing and we are in a confident,
> non-regressed state on Ubuntu Phone.
> 
> Feedback...
> In order to get a feel for the response, if you do test, please take time
> to add your name & mark which platform here
> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheets/d/1QcZOt9x_rY1m5d4NmmQ3FUjcWHKVoesMUv65Hm9VUK8
> Note, the sheet is only to track participation, not bug tracking, please
> use bugs when appropriate, per the instructions in the wiki.
> 
> br,kg
> 
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