WRT the comment by @totalsonic , it sounds like UBPorts should set up an account on BountySource. That would be awesome.

Also, back in the day, there was Ubuntu Brainstorm (does anybody remember that?). I do think it would be great if there was somewhere that the community could post their "wishlist" items and ideas for UT. Maybe that's BountySource, maybe some kind of idea voting app. Or maybe even just a wiki page somewhere. What's the likelyhood of having some place for those ideas to go? And, is the tracker really the best place for that? (Maybe it would be if we had the heat feature similar to launchpad).

This question is aimed at both the developers and community in general. The UBPorts installer makes it easy to flash your device, and Clickable makes it easy to bootstrap and build a new app. What additional ways can we lower the barrier to entry for development of Ubuntu Touch?

• What are the top project needs right now? (if that's "resources", please try to be more specific)

• What are the top "developer wishlist" items that haven't been worked on yet?

Is there a list of current developers (and their patreon/librapay links) anywhere?

Also, what are the biggest "developer wishlist" items right now (e.g. those things that you all would really like to have solved, but don't seem likely to get to soon because of more pressing issues)? For example, one of the recent YouTube videos mentioned that an easy-to-install dev environment would be nice to have. Anything else? Is there any chance of putting up a prioritized developer wishlist somewhere?

Are there any issues with using the 'ubuntu' name in 'ubuntu touch'? I presume that's probably trademarked by Canonical or something.

A lot of questions, I know. But thanks for all the answers by the way, this thread has provided some great insights into the project.

That was a much larger effort than I had realized.

So what are the biggest needs for the project? Developers? Money? Hardware? Infrastructure setup? Something else?

I looked up UBPorts on Liberapay and Patreon, and it seems like there is some monetary support coming from the community. Though it looks like something happened near week 130 (according to the Liberapay history) that resulted in a significant drop in income.

Wow. Well that explains why there are nearly 400 repositories under the ubports github account. That's a lot of repositories.

Do we know how many developers canonical had working on this before it was abandoned?

I'll be playing 'catch up' for a bit, having no prior familiarity with the touch project, it's software architecture, nor ubuntu/ubports' specific development processes.

But like I said, I'm eager to poke around and learn about the project. Are there any other resources that you might suggest I check out? I just found the ubports channel on YouTube, I'll probably watch some of those to get a feel for the state of things.

Thanks!

Thanks. I suppose I probably should have started with a different question:

Do you know what parts of Ubuntu Touch were abandoned by Canonical when development of Ubuntu Touch stopped? Did they only stop the packaging aspect of the project? Or did they also stop development of other core pieces of technology (e.g. Unity, Mir, Wayland, middleware layers, etc)? I suspect that since the newest Ubuntu release no longer features Unity, that development on Unity might have been stopped as well (or at least the Convergence feature of it), but this is purely a guess. Does anybody know for sure?

If all they did was stop the packaging aspect, well, that might change my answer to your questions a bit... I suppose I was starting from the assumption that some of the software that's needed to make Ubuntu Touch work was likely abandoned when Ubuntu Touch was. That could have been incorrect.

Anyways, to answer your questions, if any of the UI parts were abandoned (Unity, mobile UI features, etc) then I'd probably be most interested in working on that. Though I also wouldn't mind getting involved with middleware or backend stuff either. I've heard rumors that the Ubuntu Touch emulator no longer works, if that's still the case, I think that would also be interesting to try and fix.

I have 13 years of experience with C, C++, Python, Qt, and Gtk, but no real experience yet with kernel/driver programming.

Anyways, perhaps someone can provide some insight as to what the needs are on the project, what software (if any) was abandoned by Canonical when Ubuntu Touch was, etc. I'd certainly be interested to hear the scoop.

Thanks!

Hi folks,
I'm new to Ubuntu Touch, but I've been really intrigued with the project. I'd be interested in considering the possibility of becoming a developer / contributor for Ubuntu Touch itself. It seems like a neat project. My primary interest would be in developing for the UI and middleware layers, rather than just building 3rd-party applications. That all said, I'd like to set up a development environment and poke around a bit before making a long-term commitment to the project. I was browsing the documentation on docs.ubports.com, but it didn't seem obvious to me what I would need to do to setup a development environment for Ubuntu Touch itself... app development is described, but core development doesn't seem to be. Is that documented anywhere? Did I just miss it? Can anyone offer any hints on getting setup?

I don't yet have a suitable hardware device yet to run Ubuntu Touch on, is there a way to run it in an emulator or VM? Or is most development done on-device?

Also, are there any developer docs anywhere, such as a roadmap, bug tracker, wiki, design documentation, etc.?

Thanks!
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