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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for your great explanation, Oliver!
In that case, I can live with vivid-based devel-proposed images. ;)

Cheers,
Niklas

2015-05-05 20:24 GMT+02:00 Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2015, 20:00 +0200 schrieb Niklas Wenzel:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >         Currently there are no plans of
> >         wily-based touch devices in the future, so we'll probably
> >         stick with
> >         vivid for nearest time. We might implement something similar
> >         to a
> >         dual-landing scheme, where every vivid landing would be
> >         auto-synced to
> >         wily, but this is still something under consideration.
> >
> >
> > May I ask for the reason of that?
> >
> the phones need a stable base, do not worry, all features that would go
> into a wily image will land in your vivid phone install.
>
> the planned switch of the phone to snappy will simply mean that a lot of
> breakage will very likely happen in wily for a while. not rolling out
> monthly OTAs is not really an option. stopping phone development until
> wily has stabilized isn't either.
>
> so the base of the phone stays on vivid for the time being, development
> and bug fixes happen there too, all of that will land in parallel in
> wily as well, where we will eventually have experimental snappy images
>
> ciao
>         oli.
>
>
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