Matters approaching

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Dear Tech Board

Our current phone images have pioneered some new approaches to
delivering both system software ("image-based updates") and applications
("click packages"). The folks driving that work have solved some really
thorny problems and the results feel great on the phone - I look forward
to updates, because they have been very reliable (one glitch in six
months) and the QA process that screens out bad images means I happily
press the button every chance I get to update.

I'd like to ask the tech-board to look forward a few months in
anticipation to the full convergence of phone, tablet and PC environments.

How could we deliver a system-image based platform to the laptop, with
click based packages, that would still feel familiar, flexible and
useful for a developer?

There are any number of points that need to be considered:

 * configuration in /etc/ and ways that can feel comfortable but remain
secure
 * the meaning of /usr/local/ in this sort of environments
 * the use of LVM and other filesystem capabilities to enable user
customisation

My expectation is this will be a very deep conversation and so I'm
writing to request that you folks take time with some of the leads of
the phone effort to consider the question before it becomes imminent
(i.e. before too many people start trying to use their phones as
laptops, or vice versa :)).

Thank you!
Mark
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