<![CDATA[Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :)]]>Please keep in mind this planning is work in progress!!!

January 2023 -> 20.04 RC
Finalizing / User ready

March 2023 -> 20.04 Maintenance support <-

March 2023 - July 2023 -> 22.04 Development
All new features in 22.04

  • Dist-Upgrade from 20.04 -> 22.04
  • Adjust CI
    ◦ create a list of transitions required
    ◦ adjust components subject to transitions of 3rd party libraries
    ◦ fix other FTBFS or test issues (due to gcc-11/12, Qt 5.15, etc.)
  • VoLTE
  • Notch support
  • Push forward qtubuntu -> qtwayland migration (as option)
    ◦ if it goes well, do the Mir 2.11 transition for 22.04, if not see 24.04
  • Background services for Click packages
  • Improve/consolidate Waydroid / Android App Support
  • Contact backend, if is available, if not -> 24.04 (not a critical-to-have transition)
  • Update Qtwebengine
  • Migrate to hfd-service -> will fix Flashlight toggle
  • Greeter: Allow launching apps in an "allow list" on top of the lockscreen (e.g. Camera)
  • Migrate Lomiri Keyboard to Maliit Keyboard
  • Become upstream of libqtdbustest/libqtbusmock
  • Improve NFC settings page
  • Implement blue light filter / Redshift support
  • Go applications (ciborium, ldm-go, nuntium)
    ◦ Migrate to Go modules
    ◦ Migrate to github.com/godbus/dbus
  • Bluetooth:
    ◦ Bluetooth: Show battery level of supported connected devices
  • Morph Browser:
    ◦ Feature request: How to open javascript console?
    ◦ Add custom search engine
    ◦ hardware acceleration?
  • Libusermetrics:
    ◦ Get rid of qdjango!!!
  • Build .deb Packages of core apps, preventing regressions in Debian packaging

September 2023 - April 2024 -> 24.04:Development
24.04 (ubuntu upstream development starts end of Q3)

  • Locationd
  • Definitely do the Mir 2.11 transition
  • Qtwebengine Update
  • Qt6 transition (???)
  • WebRTC phone calls
  • More tailored notifications >> do not disturb
  • CI-Migration from Jenkins to Gitlab

Looking forward to read your feedback below and when you are interested to pick-up some of the issues discussed.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/8670/development-planning-2023-lets-take-over-the-worldRSS for NodeSun, 19 Apr 2026 20:47:46 GMTMon, 20 Feb 2023 15:19:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:03:13 GMT]]>Happy to read about background service for clickable apps.
Will focal upgrades improve bluetooth experience?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71108https://forums.ubports.com/post/71108Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:03:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:58:58 GMT]]>I think one of the main thing that should be fixed are the issues after upgrading from xenial. The one I encountered for example was the difficulty in uninstalling/upgrading xenial version apps. I had to reboot multiple times and try different things to make them work correctly again 😄

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71103https://forums.ubports.com/post/71103Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:58:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:59:21 GMT]]>If I understand correctly https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/development/core/-/milestones?state=opened , OTA-1 Focal is very close, but really, Focal will only be usable with OTA-2 (OTA-1 maintenance) which should theoretically follow quite quickly

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71101https://forums.ubports.com/post/71101Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:59:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:33:03 GMT]]>@fla I think they are after more on the momentum. The jump from 20.04 to 22.04/24.04 won't be as big as xenial to focal. There won't be renaming or moving to Gitlab. Many issues with deprecared stuffs have been fixed already. In this approach, we'll be closer to current version and getting stability in that version means longer time to have stable and updated system.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71034https://forums.ubports.com/post/71034Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:33:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:37:51 GMT]]>@fla said in Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world 🙂:

And what about the stabilization on Lomiri on desktop, being fully included in Debian etc?

It is thought Lomiri being in Debian (And other Distro bases) will attract the attention of Debian developers, or of developers of derivative distros who want to see Lomiri run well on theirs. That will result in patches being proposed to fix bugs, and maybe also features being implemented. All of this will spread the development load.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71021https://forums.ubports.com/post/71021Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:37:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:37:16 GMT]]>@fla The idea is that all of that work will be done in parallel or at the very least in shorter cycles.
Trying to stabilise the current version 'first' is what got us in the situation of still being on xenial long after it went out of canonical support.

The idea now is, rather, to have the new features and fixes always going into the 'next' version, and where appropriate backporting them to the 'current' version. This has the advantage (among others) of making the 'current' version truly stable (i.e. no breaking changes, mostly bugfixes) while ensuring that the 'next' version will not be missing features present in the 'current' version. This will mean less regressions when moving to the 'next' version.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71020https://forums.ubports.com/post/71020Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:37:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:12:53 GMT]]>I didn't expect to see any work on 22.04 right now, let alone 24.04. That would be amazing of course, but isn't it a bit too optimistic? I guess many problems will be found once 20.04 will be widely adopted, so you will have to work on that first.

And what about the stabilization on Lomiri on desktop, being fully included in Debian etc?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/71019https://forums.ubports.com/post/71019Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:12:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:12:26 GMT]]>@domubpkm Should you not be taking those up with the app dev? Also dekko for Focal is getting a look at from what I understand.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70865https://forums.ubports.com/post/70865Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:12:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:04:38 GMT]]>@arubislander means for me clean of bugs because it still has some and stuck as close as possible to ubuntu updates.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70862https://forums.ubports.com/post/70862Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:04:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:37:30 GMT]]>@domubpkm what would a strong Webber look like, over and above what it does now?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70861https://forums.ubports.com/post/70861Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:37:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:44:09 GMT]]>Personally, in the immediate future, because I don't think that dekko will become efficient quickly given the maintainer problem mentioned and the multiple issues of dekko, it would be rather desirable to have a strong morph (quickly correct DNS and WebRTC leaks), coupled with a strong Webber.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70857https://forums.ubports.com/post/70857Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:44:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:50:36 GMT]]>@lsitongia yes you right the definition of core app is kind of vague. Some important apps are not preinstalled because they make the system image so big, that they could break installations. You are right that an app such as Dekko is very important for our user base, but as @kugiigi says it is difficult to find maintainers.

Though it could be a good agenda point to address how to deal with the "essential" apps, Dekko, Contacts, Morph as a community.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70850https://forums.ubports.com/post/70850Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:50:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:18:43 GMT]]>@beta-break Thank you for the clarification.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70849https://forums.ubports.com/post/70849Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:18:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:49:38 GMT]]>@domubpkm yes, we are trying to achieve that at the end of the month and then 20.04 feature development will stop.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70848https://forums.ubports.com/post/70848Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:49:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:13:18 GMT]]>@lsitongia I believe the list of core apps in gitlab are the ones that are in click package and installable/updatable via the OpenStore. Other core apps are still currently in deb format such as Morph and they are under Core in gitlab. Dekko was never preinstalled and as much as that would be good, even the existing core apps lack maintainers so adding Dekko might not change much.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70846https://forums.ubports.com/post/70846Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:13:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:07:32 GMT]]>@beta-break
The core app list includes calendar, but not contacts. The list described here includes Morph, which is not a core app, but does not include an email client, such as dekko.

I realize that there's a lot of work planned here (like, VoLTE), but I think that contacts and an email client should be added. Also, the list of core apps should be re-evaluated?

Thank you!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70843https://forums.ubports.com/post/70843Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Development Planning 2023 ~ lets take over the world :) on Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:51:30 GMT]]>Is there a stable 20.04 somewhere?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/70839https://forums.ubports.com/post/70839Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:51:30 GMT