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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome to hear all that Oliver. For the record I ditched android 
several months back, and have my Nexus 4 as my main device, alongside a 
Nexus 7 for everything else not work related. I'd love to hop into 
testing the vivid branches if it helps the QA team along with regular 
promotions - for now I'm sticking with RTM on the Nexus 4 as I need a 
stable device.

Running vivid-proposed on the Nexus 7 however and loving it. Definitely 
a few reasons to upgrade from Utopic & RTM on the Nexus 4, but not 
currently stable enough. Hope this helps someone thinking of making the 
switch.

Cheers,

Mitchell


On 02/12/14 08:12, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
>
> please disregard the other mail, evolution messed up big time for me
> today ...
> (when do we get dekko for the desktop ? )
>
> Am Montag, den 01.12.2014, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Niklas Wenzel:
> > Hi,
> > I'm currently planning to remove the MultiROM dualboot solution from
> > my Nexus 4 because Ubuntu has finally replaced Android for me.
> wow, that is good to hear !!!
>
> > Would you mind sharing your plans regarding vivid promotions? Wi
> > ll we see one per week similar to RTM promotions or will vivid
> > promotions be done as irregular as we've seen them to happen since the
> > release of the RTM images?
> what do you mean by "irregular" ... there haven't been any vivid
> promotions yet :)
>
> with some luck we will have one this week though to finally get
> something recent into the devel channel ...
> but after all do not expect vivid promotions to happen as regular as
> RTM, vivid or devel are pretty much that ... developer releases. RTM
> means "release to manufacturer", this is what manufacturers get to put
> on the preinstalled phones and what your mom and mine will use ... due
> to that fact this is also what gets most QA attention, while devel
> promotions will always suffer from "when QA has time to take a look"
>
> it would probably be nice to organize some regular community testing. I
> am sure QA would happily share test plans with the world so willing
> community members could jump in and help getting more frequent vivid (or
> devel) promotions.
>
> > Furthermore, and this is unrelated to my above question, I'd be
> > interested in whether installing the devel channel (or, more
> > generally, any channel) will be possible on the upcoming commercial
> > Ubuntu phones, independently from the model or manufacturer.
> I doubt that's doable once you have 1000 different phones out there ...
> for the moment we will likely do this, but in the future i would expect
> that you see us going the same route google goes with the nexus line,
> there will be a few reference devices that are also heavily used inside
> canonical, in the labs and by developers and these devices will be fully
> supported for using the devel distro ... others will surely be easy to
> implement but will need some "adopt a port" action by the community ...
>
> ciao
> 	oli