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[Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <
> lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Everything moving in the standard pace so far. A new
>> address-book-service, unity-scopes-shell and another webbrowser-app have
>> landed throughout the day (packed with many good fixes). A big Unity8
>> landing that was long in development, integrating unity-controlled mouse
>> pointers, external screen support and many other convergence changes is
>> now ready to land. The silo has been tested and now we're only waiting
>> for a final archive admin binNEW review. Great stuff.
>>
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> For those that might have been following our convergence story, what it
> does mean is that every bit of goodness we'd been demonstrating out of the
> prototype/demo code "silo 0" has now been officially reviewed, tested, and
> now released into the phone image. It took us a bit longer than expected,
> however the benefit of time provided high quality landing, no regression
> and well tested features. It required significant changes across not only
> in unity8, but qtmir, unity-api, and fixes from Mir0.17 from a few weeks
> ago. Big thanks to the Unity8 & Mir teams for a steady hand, hard work, and
> follow through. We're not done yet, but this was big hump - feature adds
> should be a little easier now.
>

One small self correction - as of right now - it is technically not in the
image, but it is landed in the stable-overlay ppa. So should be in the next
image build. Ahead of that, if you're a developer type, you can also
update/upgrade.


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>>
>> Multiple other features are staged for next week, one of which is the
>> OTA-version display support in system-settings and system-image. Note to
>> all developers: please remember that the feature freeze is currently
>> planned for next week - try to get all the goodies ready by then.
>>
>> In the meantime, we are investigating the multiple reports of xenial
>> build failing.
>>
>> Anyway, have a nice weekend everyone!
>>
>>
>> * What landed in our images:
>> http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/landing-team/ubuntu-touch
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>> #156 rc-proposed/krillin
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>> http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/landing-team/ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/156.commitlog
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>> * Smoke-testing results:
>> devel : http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/wily/touch/
>> rc : http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/vivid/touch_stable/
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>>
>> * Some useful documentation:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandingTeam
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/citrain/RTMLandingApproaches
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/citrain/LandingProcess
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandingTeam/Smoketesting
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandingTeam/ReleaseSchedule
>> http://developer.ubuntu.com/start/ubuntu-for-devices/image-channels/
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>> https://requests.ci-train.ubuntu.com/
>> https://trello.com/b/AE3swczu/silo-testing
>> http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/issues/
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>> * Blocking issues (stable):
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>> None.
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>>
>> * Blocking issues (devel):
>>
>> None.
>>
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>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --
>> Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
>>  Foundations Team
>>  lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>  www.canonical.com
>>
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