Sponsoring Ubuntu Touch community builds

Registered by Ricardo Salveti

Currently we're building images just for the Nexus based devices, as we can distribute them, and also as we support them as reference builds/devices.

As we get more and more community ports, it came the idea of being able to sponsor the builds by providing an infrastructure to generate daily builds for those devices (the ones that allow us to distribute the image with binary blobs).

Identify if we're able to provide such infrastructure, and how that can be done at the engineering level.

Blueprint information

Status:
Started
Approver:
Bill Filler
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Ricardo Salveti
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Sergio Schvezov
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Proposed for saucy
Implementation:
Started
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-13.05
Started by
Ricardo Salveti

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Work Items

Work items:
[dholbach] Work with the community to identify which devices contain distributable binary blobs: INPROGRESS
[ogra] See if we can manage the 'community'-supported builds different at cdimage, to avoid blocking the current nexus based builds: TODO
Fix breakfast to only download the device specific repositories: DONE
[rsalveti] Work with IS to see if we'd be able to have a gerrit-like instance for phablet: TODO
[sergiusens] Modify phablet-flash to display per device legal disclaimer: TODO
[sergiusens] Add community build download capability to phablet-flash: TODO
[sergiusens] Document build mechanism: DONE
[sergiusens] Add test tool to validate images: DONE
[sergiusens] Jenkins bot should advertise builds on #ubuntu-touch: POSTPONED