13.10 planned release schedule will be in place before the weekend. Regards,
Phill. On 20 March 2013 17:28, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com> wrote: > *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> > ** > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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