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["Nick Luigi V. Eusebio" <kugi_igi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think many people got spoiled of getting the information of every step 
Canonical does in the development like every OTA milestones. Of course 
there's still things that they won't announce until it is final or decided 
on their side. Then people will complain again about broken promises 😁

On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:14:44 AM PHT, Mitchell Reese 
<dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow - really impressed at the immense amount of negativity lately on 
> this list... over Christmas.... and New Years... when most sensible 
> working people are on holidays...
>
> Do you really expect a response, and movement, at this time?
>
> Be happy - Ubuntu is an awesome project - there are lots of massive 
> changes in the works with the transition to snaps. I'm sure there will 
> be more information/an announcement soon.
>
> M
>
>
> On 04/01/17 11:09, Nikos Chatziioakimidis wrote:
> > I think that's the case too.
> >
> >
> > On Τρίτη, 3 Ιανουαρίου 2017 11:20:55 Μ.Μ. EET, Heroldich Robin 
> > <robinhero@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'm 99% sure that we won't have an OTA-15 update. There are a lot of 
> > > evidences. There is no OTA-15 milestone on Launchpad, the new silos 
> > > on Bileto are not builded for Vivid (our current base system) 
> > > anymore, just for Xenial and Zesty. Updating to Xenial/Zesty from 
> > > Vivid is not possible via an OTA update, because the difference is 
> > > too big. so maybe a reflash could be a solution, but it wouldn't be 
> > > an ideal one. There's no phone, which can run a Xenial base system. 
> > > the QA testers use the tablet for every test. So I think Canonical is 
> > > thinking about the future of the phone platform and it forbade its 
> > > employees to talk about the future of the platform. So I think 
> > > there's a very big chance that they will kill the platform completely 
> > > (worst case scenerio) or they will start to sale new phones with 
> > > Xenial base and Snaps in the future, but not this year. And it would 
> > > mean the end of the support to all previous devices. I think this is 
> > > the reason why they didn't start to sale the Meizu MX6 phones as well...
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > Feladó: Ubuntu-phone 
> > > <ubuntu-phone-bounces+robinhero=outlook.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> > > meghatalmazó: Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Elküldve: 2017. január 3. 21:20:47
> > > Címzett: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Tárgy: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Poor state of support.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/01/17 20:13, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > > Before thinking in OTA15, you should flash your device to a known good
> > > > state. Have you mounted it to write?
> > > >
> > > > Why do you think, that OTA15 was canceled.
> > > >
> > > >        matthias
> > > Thanks guys, I have discovered the notes I made last time I had to flash
> > > it thankfully. It's going through now. As for known good state these
> > > sort of issues begin to crop up monthly. The OTA always kicked my phone
> > > back into line.
> > >
> > > I suggest OTA15 isn't happening because any attempt anyone has made to
> > > ask when it is coming has been deflected. There is no mention of it on
> > > launchpad and people just keep referring to big changes ahead and it
> > > being pointless investing time in a system that is being retired 
> > > shortly.
> > >
> > > If it is happening someone please provide a timescale or at least
> > > confirmation. Not being given any information at all leads to great
> > > frustration.
> > >
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