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[Marcin <jez157@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had scraps of the information pointing to that on several accounts now 
- on the Ubuntu community QA [0], Google plus page [1] and even on the 
Ubuntu podcast [2]. It was not kept secret at all.

Weird thing now is that we still don't have any official directions and 
timelines, and people start to tend to think it means the project is 
being killed.

Well, I just wanted to highlight that it is really an Ubuntu convergence 
project, which is a parent to Ubuntu personal, desktop, IoT and so on. 
Ubuntu phone got many things done already, and now we need the other 
projects to catch up. This is why I'm not expecting any new cool 
features to my Aquaris E4,5 in the nearest future (if at all). I am not 
concerned about the phone being discarded in terms of support, as this 
is already an aging device. I am also relieved, that there are plans (or 
at least rumors) that M10 can have a life after snaps.

Backwards compatibility is a killer, when you realized that what you did 
so far was not enough to keep pace (click packages?) or just purely 
wrong in the architecture design (click packages?).

Writing an entirely new system, while trying to be backwards compatible 
with the old considered broken is a terribly bad idea. I'm actually 
happy that Ubuntu folks are saying - /we tried, failed (click is 
sleeping, but won't wake up), learned and now implement things as they 
should be (snaps). Then we can build upon that./

I'm waiting for the snap based system, and a new phone coming along with 
that. Dual SIM preferrably ;)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5B31hmY8HQ
[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111350780270925540549
[2] http://ubuntupodcast.org/

On 01/06/2017 09:02 PM, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> And people wonder why Canonical was silent? (apart from Christmas and 
> New Year break) EVERY tidbit of information here is picked up by 
> social media, 'the press', and everyone else to extrapolate this 
> project... How tedious...
>
> I run multiple theatre projects, community and professional, with 
> various funding partners. Not announceing before checking with them is 
> common courtesy. Sometimes that means keeping thnigs under my hat.
>
> According to omg ubuntu - their click-bait headline points to the 
> Ubuntu Touch project dying. What a clusterfuck...
>
> Mitchell

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Marcin Waśko