The .1 release is the most important, because it's a stabilization of LTS ISO release. Next point releases introduce new kernels & GUI and this can introduce new bugs to discover.
El 22/07/16 a les 22:59, Walter Lapchynski ha escrit: > As you can see from the page on [PPC][1], the architecture has only > community support from Ubuntu. Lubuntu has been trying as much as we can > to support this, but the fact of the matter is that we have no > developers on our team that can actually help with PPC bugs. > > The best you can hope for is that kernel developers (mostly, the issue > is with drivers) might have some interest in fixing bugs. However, with > only community support, that's unlikely. Most of the focus on PPC has > been on the server side of things, where graphics just don't come into play. > > My estimation of things is that Lubuntu on PPC mostly works, given a few > caveats. All we need to do to release PPC is for all of the test cases > to be completed successfully (regardless of whether or not there are > bugs) and that marked on the QA tracker for the final testing of each > milestone. If we don't have that done, Canonical will not let us release it. > > PPC was what brought me originally to Lubuntu, so there's a special > place for it in my heart. Having an OS make that old hardware work was > very refreshing and introduced me to the real power and mission of Lubuntu. > > However, I haven't ran PPC in a long, long time. That being said, I'm > not of much help. We rely on the community of users to help out. When I > don't see testing happening in the community, it makes me think that I'm > not the only one that's neglected their PPC machines. > > The reality of the situation is that there has been much talk throughout > the Ubuntu community over the past few years about getting rid of i386. > If that happens, I can't imagine that Canonical keeping PPC. With that > in mind, I think the end of PPC Lubuntu is coming regardless of what our > feelings are. > > Furthermore, the Lubuntu Team is a small one and we often lack the > capacity to do the things that we need to do. PPC is just stretching us > even thinner, and into an area few of us really have the experience, > knowledge, resources, or time to deal with. > > That said, I'm inclined to suggest we start the process of removing PPC. > We managed to release an LTS, which is the only version we even bother > with PPC on. All we would need to do is ensure that all the point > releases for Trusty and Xenial get published. That would put us out > until about August 2018. > > I think ultimately this will be better for the team. Most importantly, > though, I think it will be better for the PPC users that I fear we can't > really support and who we often leave with a frustrated experience. > > What do you think? > > [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC > -- > @wxl | http://polka.bike > Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader > Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member > Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer > > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
