> > *The 3 items the Technical Board has voted on and accepted are considered as > final*. *We do not expect to have to vote again on any of this and are > just waiting on the implementation of those*.
Then what exactly are we going to discuss or need to discuss since this is final? Typical Canonical Style - making their own decisions then: "hey people, there you go. Take it or leave it". As if they have asked anyone before that :D Anyway, I care the most about Lubuntu and I shall be as long as Lubuntu is alive. What is coming next? I don't really care. I won't be surprise at all :D As Julien said, we do have a plan to stick to and release 13.04 and that is what we all should worry about at the moment, IMHO. Thanks! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So, desktop is now to be 9 month support, LTS is to be LTS... Just waiting > on how we are going to release a 'release' once the testing and QA guys > have gotten our heads round it. Not here for me to blog, but the discussion > of just how we are going to have a 'release' is important, so please have a > think and get involved. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > > The following announcement is from Stéphane Graber, on behalf of the > Ubuntu Technical Board, about changes to releases decided at the > Ubuntu Technical Board meeting. > > It's also published on the fridge if you wish to share this news > directly: > http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/changes-in-ubuntu-releases-decided-by-the-ubuntu-technical-board/ > and you can also read commentary from Rick Spencer, Vice President of > Ubuntu Engineering, on the importance and impact of these changes > here: > http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/ubuntu-technical-board-looks-at-shuttleworths-proposal-for-release-management-methodology/ > > In yesterday's meeting[0] we covered two of the topics from Mark's > proposal to the Technical Board: > > == Reducing the length of support for our regular (non-LTS) releases == > > The rational here is that it's costing a lot of time to maintain all > those releases for 18 months. It's also causing a lot of load on the SRU > team and on developers to ensure that upgrading from one release to the > other won't cause regressions due to fixes being SRUed only to a few > releases. > > The change in support length from 18 months to 9 months will reduce the > number of releases we need to support in parallel while still allowing > enough time for our users to upgrade to the next release. > > This change will affect Ubuntu releases starting with 13.04, any older > regular release will still be supported for 18 months and LTS releases > will still be supported for 5 years. > > This change was approved through two votes, the first about shortening > the support length to 9 months and the second about doing it starting > with 13.04. Both votes had all 3 attending Technical Board members' > approval and had general support by the other members from mailing-list > discussions. > > == Enable users to continuously track the development focus of Ubuntu > without having to explicitly upgrade == > > This discussion was about making it easier for some of our users to keep > their machine always on the current development release. > > This has nothing to do with Rolling Releases and is purely about setting > up some kind of meta-series on the archive mirrors that people can use > instead of having to manually upgrade from one development release to > the next. > > There again, all 3 present members agreed with this proposal. > > == Other discussions == > > Outside of those two items, we also briefly discussed some changes to > our update tool to allow our users to upgrade by more than a single > release at a time. > > In the current state of things we allow for upgrades from a release to > the next or from an LTS release to the next LTS release. > > The plan here is to change that, so that a user of Ubuntu 12.10 could > directly update to Ubuntu 13.10 or 14.04 LTS. > > This change should make the life of our users much easier and will > ensure that we get to the next LTS with much more reliable and well > tested upgrades. > > The Technical Board didn't feel that there would be anything to vote on > at this time and leaves the implementation and testing of this to the > various teams involved (Foundations, QA, Release). > > The 3 items the Technical Board has voted on and accepted are considered > as final. We do not expect to have to vote again on any of this and are > just waiting on the implementation of those. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > [0] > http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.moin.txt > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/community-announce> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- *Best Regards, amjjawad* *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/* Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>| My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> **
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