A new "Unity 8" flavour

Hi, The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (ish, we don't plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project. The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that's required to make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration. We still plan to migrate pieces of the current desktop over, but we are very mindful of the need to not destabilise the desktop and upset its users, and are hopeful that developing this flavour in parallel will mean that migrations will truly happen when software is ready instead of as a result of pressure to get work into the hands of users early. There are still many unanswered questions, not least of which is any treatment of click packages. That's fine. Here I am just keen to get something up and running; many changes will be necessary and we can make them as we go along. The reason I'm mailing the release list is because I need help in getting the flavour built. My initial work is in ppa:ubuntu-desktop/unity8-flavour (seed branch lp:~laney/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu-unity8.utopic). Here are the questions I have right now: - I feel like the name "ubuntu-unity8" isn't very good, because that's the name of a piece of software already so it could get confusing. I thought of "ubuntu-touch-desktop", but bikeshedding (meant in a nice way) appreciated. - Do we have the resources to build another flavour? - Most importantly, I don't know all of the places that need to be touched to enable daily builds. I'm happy to do all of the work that I have access to do, but could someone who knows how this all fits together please point me to the places that need to know about a new flavour? Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney at debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney at ubuntu.com ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/attachments/20140514/420ae4d2/attachment.pgp>