@Lakotaubp please update the link to the stream in your post, it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZpZ3r79Dhk

Whether to develop and polish features on 16.04 for the time being, or to move to 18.04 as soon as possible, is discussed starting at about 33:15 in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 32. Personally, I hope that the UBports team will move Ubuntu Touch to 18.04 as soon as practical (not as soon as possible). The UBports team is making progress with Unity8 for the desktop on 18.04, including progress toward full Wayland support, and I'd like to see the same Wayland support on the phone. But the wait-and-see approach taken by the devs seems most prudent. And who knows, maybe the puzzle pieces (with Mir, systemd, etc) will fall into place, allowing them to move to 18.04 more quickly than anticipated. Or at least that's my hope.

@dtarrant great now your up to speed

@lakotaubp you're welcome

Excellent, @lakotaubp - all publicity is good.

Hopefully, we all can keep the Ubuntu Touch dream alive

@lakotaubp and @MK73 I notice that, with regard to installing the Unity8 desktop preview, the blog post links to instructions found on another blog post. Suggestion: Although the instructions found on linked blog post are currently accurate, I suggest that you consider instead linking to instructions that, if needed, can be more readily updated, namely those instructions found here: https://github.com/ubports/unity8/ Also, linking to the instructions found at the above suggested location promotes filing issue reports for the Unity8 preview in the appropriate place, namely in the Unity8 issue tracker.

Thanks!