Ubuntu Touch Q&A 123 call for questions
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@Hugehead said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 123 call for questions:
i am asking because with the loong time nothing heared in Q&A and (i feel) slow process in 20.04 (my oneplus 6 is nearly unusable) i felt like UT is kind of dead?
It is not, but I know it feels like it is. Everyone has other things to do in life, and of course what life's curve balls that come your way (I have had a massive one last year).
A lot goes on on Telegram, which I am no fan of (Telegram that is - social media avoidance). A lot of the conversation goes above my head as I am not a developer or programmer. It is better though for quick responses.
My question is:
With Google implementing anti-rollback features in its Android future, how badly will this affect open source development, especially Ubuntu Touch in the future?
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@MrT10001 said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 123 call for questions:
Google implementing anti-rollback features in its Android future
Please clarify in plain language. Not everyone is supposed to understand.
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@UBportsNews What is the link to be there?
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@MrT10001 Ok thank you. Personally, I assume that any problem can be circumvented, it is only a question of computer skills that is why computer flaws and remedies are discovered and vice versa. We read this all the time. And at UBports there are super qualified developers (not enough, yes).
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is gonna be this project ever gonna be supported again by some company, for example Canonical?
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@aoam companies are welcome to sponsor development, and there are some that do. But as far as the project becoming dependent on one company to finance development, I feel that would again put the project at the mercy of internal business decisions of said company.
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The Q&A did happend yersterday, and you can wath the replay here:
Some of my questions
️ were answered, so for the record, a wee TL;DR :- They agree there is a need to define what should be built-in and what should be used through the contentHub, but since there is a lot of works here and there, any contribution would be welcome (Before spending time on a huge merge request, i still strongly recommend to come and say hi in a telegram or matrix ubports channel, or simply create a post on the forum and talk about some mock-up and list what to add to the gallery app, or not, because as it was said, we might don't want all the features of the universe in there
) - Same answer than years ago: it is not a short term target, click are just fine, they do their jobs just fine, many work to do. You can still install this app and try some snaps (could be useful for your tablet/desktop experience)
- Too much work would be needed to implement this, and not even sure yet it could work for phone devices, for now it is better to stay on a known platform (Ubuntu LTS) and focus on what's is more urgent.
- were not read/answered
- were not "answered", but made our host smile when reading it (because it was explicitly asked to not ask about porting device, and the "me" still added the sneaky question, sorry, not sorry
), and Marius said he would love to see this device ported since he loves the idea behind the fairphone project, and added that receiving a device from Fairphone, or having a contact to help ubports (doc, w/e) would be very welcome.
Note on the 5. : Postmarket OS (alpine linux based distro on phone) is currently being ported on the Fairphone 5. They (Luca) already have a device, one of them is/was working at fairphone (just checked) so maybe that helps them a lot, but maybe some cherry pick could help the portage if someone starts it ! (probably not before people receive their device anyway. PS: if someone start the portage, count me in as a tester ^^)
- their wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)
- their merge request on gitlab : https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4359
- They agree there is a need to define what should be built-in and what should be used through the contentHub, but since there is a lot of works here and there, any contribution would be welcome (Before spending time on a huge merge request, i still strongly recommend to come and say hi in a telegram or matrix ubports channel, or simply create a post on the forum and talk about some mock-up and list what to add to the gallery app, or not, because as it was said, we might don't want all the features of the universe in there
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Are there any full-time mobile linux/ Ubuntu Touch Developer Advocates?
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@travisfw
Q&A is finished
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@travisfw this is an interesting question. Are you looking to fill that role, or get in contact with someone who fills that role?
