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["A. James Lewis" <james@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't agree... in this case I think it's

a) not surprising the media is picking up "EVERY tidbit of 
information"... because information is kinda thin on the ground.

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b) click bait or not... people already interpreted the lack of 
information as the quiet death of the project, mainly because they don't 
understand the scope of the project at all... so having some information 
can only make things better, or do nothign.

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c) Isn't it better that the people inside the community actually have 
some idea what's going on...  managing expectations is key to keeping 
people (and developers) happy... someone might choose to purchase an 
Android phone sooner rather than later, so that after 18.04 LTS they can 
purchase whatever new shiny Ubuntu developer phone is on the market at 
that point... and in the mean time they aren't being feeling let down by 
Canonical, and perhaps they will help with Unity8 on the desktop....

There's some mixed opinion, but I think the tone of this list was lifted 
quite significantly just quite a small amount of information.

James


On 06/01/17 20:51, Gareth France wrote:
> On 06/01/17 20:02, 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
> I know, makes me feel sorry I brought it up!


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A. James Lewis (james@xxxxxxxxxx)
"Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people
built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works."