On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman
<ubuntu@kitterman.com>wrote:
> > On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:09:25 AM Oliver Ries wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > in addition to that I just want to highlight, that Jono and I are
> > > working
> > > on creating a forum for all interested Mir stakeholders (e.g. flavors,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > also ISVs and others) to discuss such issues and drive alignment.
> > >
> > > We hope to have an update on that next week.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > See this is part of the problem. I don't WANT to be a Mir stakeholder. I
> > want to focus my Kubuntu work on packaging KDE and making it work well.
> > Historically, one of the great things about Kubuntu has been that we could
> > rely on the work of the X team to give us a great display system with up
> > to
> > date hardware support that we didn't have to worry about.
>
> with that I take that your concerns would be addressed if there was kwin
> support in Mir.
>
> I think Ubuntu as an OS platform for KUbuntu is interested in working with
> you on that. The conflict that needs to be solved is between your upstream
> (kwin) and the OS platform. From what I understand from this thread is that
> the main concern there (leaving any ideological or political motivation
> aside) is having to support a single distribution solution, which
> admittedly is fair in a world of limited resources.
In addition to limited resources for development, it'd be something that
upstream is completely unable to test.
> My team is committed to not lock out any *buntu flavor but provide you with
> all means to still run on Ubuntu as an OS platform once Mir is an integral
> part of that (which is why I am referring to you as a stakeholder at least
> for the transition period).
>
> As mentioned, we are planning to soon reach out to stakeholders and
> dependent parties to discuss a plan forward on this topic. We sure would
> appreciate your input in moving forward in a constructive discussion.
OK.
Part of the problem is that no one outside Canonical know enough to really
have an informed opinion. Here are some immediate questions that come to
mind:
- How invasive would Mir integration be? Is it isolated enough that it could
be integrated upstream based on our testing?
- What's the time line? When , if we follow along with Ubuntu, would we
expect to run with XMir instead of X and when would we expect to integrate
with MIR natively?
- When will MIR have a stable API/ABI?
Scott K
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