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[Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Filip!

Not yet, at least not at the first stage. That is the longer-term goal
but the transition to snappy will be the next phase after we switch the
baseline.

Cheers,

W dniu 22.04.2016 o 16:03, Filip Dorosz pisze:
> Hi Łukasz.
> 
> When the Phone move to Xenial will it also be Snappy based finally?
> 
> Regards,
> Filip Dorosz
> 
> W dniu 22.04.2016 o 11:41, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak pisze:
>> Hello Bob!
>>
>> W dniu 22.04.2016 o 01:23, Bob Summerwill pisze:
>>> So Xenial has been released :-)
>>>
>>> My apologies if this has already been addressed, but what is the planned
>>> schedule for Xenial arriving for Ubuntu Phone devices?
>>>
>>> I have been using a Meizu MX4 as my primary phone for the last few
>>> months,
>>> and I just took delivery of a BQ Aquarius M10 tablet and am setting
>>> it up
>>> right now.   Woohoo!
>>>
>>> Both my devices are currently on Vivid 15.04 (OTA 10.1).
>>>
>>> What is the Xenial transition plan for these official devices?    Best
>>> wishes!
>>
>> As already mentioned in a few landing e-mails, the baseline switch from
>> vivid to xenial is our near-term plan for stable channels. But please
>> remember that it's not an easy task. When we were switching our baseline
>> from 14.09 (ubuntu-rtm) to 15.04 long time ago it took us a few months
>> to stabilize the phone again. With xenial introducing the g++ ABI break
>> (and a few other nuances), the whole process could take even longer
>> since there's more things we need to consider during the switch.
>>
>> The most difficult part is that we can't only concentrate on one front,
>> meaning: we can't just drop everything and just work on getting xenial
>> (devel-proposed) into working shape as our current focus needs to be on
>> the stable devices (vivid-overlay). That being said, we will be
>> preparing something similar to a 'task force' that will be taking care
>> of moving the xenial initiative forward. It's really hard to give a firm
>> schedule here - with this we still need to wait a bit.
>>
>> All this means the next few OTAs will still be vivid-based with our
>> development focus on vivid, but then we intend to switch to xenial for
>> future devices.
>>
>>>
>>> I am on the waiting list for Meizu MX5 PRO as well, as my next phone.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bob Summerwill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> 


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