Note: moving conversation to mail list.
Rick and I chatted about scope on IRC, and he provided some excellent
perspective. To restate the goal of the Lucid work:
Provide MT support in the kernel so that developers can start building
exciting tactile apps for Ubuntu ASAP.
As such, here's what I'd like to propose:
Phase 1:
* Lucid-targeted
* use the current blueprint
* focus on getting kernel work completed for Lucid
* we want to do the kernel bits right
* this may mean taking option 1) below for the user-space bits, but
putting this work in a PPA, not in Lucid
Phase 2:
* Lucid+1-targeted
* create a new blueprint
* move non-Lucid tasks from Phase 1 blueprint to Phase 2 blueprint
* take the usable user-space bits from Phase 1 and follow the
development plan of option 2) below.
The understanding in this approach would be that we will be throwing
away some of the work done now in order to get the MT kernel code
ready for Lucid.
Thoughts?
d
On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Rick Spencer wrote:
Be sure to keep your eye on the prize, which is [developers] can demo
ntrig mt working with the Lucid kernel. Anything else is scope creep.
Cheers, Rick
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 17:18 -0600, Duncan M. McGreggor wrote:
Hey Mark,
Bryce and I just had a conversation on IRC about the email from Peter
Hutterer that Bryce forwarded to the multi-touch list. The plan of
attack that Peter laid out there feels good to Bryce, however, there
are concerns regarding how we should best do this given our time
constraints and expected deliverables.
In particular, Bryce outlined two possible directions:
1) One is to cobble together whatever we can to get as much
functionality enabled in as little time possible, and not worry so
much about upstream or long term directions.
2) The other option is to take the time to get the underlying
infrastructure stuff done, in accord with the larger plans upstream
is
laying out, and thereby establish a solid base to get multitouch
working later in 10.10.
We both have the sense that your preference is with the latter, but I
want to make sure that you're well-informed about the time costs
involved. Is there anything else you need from us in order to make a
direction decision?
Thanks,
d
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