Re: [Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-03 Thread Nathan Handler
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Vishal Rao wrote: > I believe "LTS" just means "Long Term Supported" and not necessarily > more or less "stable" :-) During the development cycle for a LTS release, we know that we will be supporting it for a long time. As a result, we are more cautious with the ch

Re: [Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On 3 April 2010 16:37, Nicholas Ipsen(Sephiroth_VII) wrote: > Reading the Wiki, it sounds a lot like stability is the goal of an LTS. True that, and I think this is for the first time with Lucid? (that the release schedule and wiki were updated?) I wonder if I'm mistaken in reading some forum po

Re: [Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-03 Thread Nicholas Ipsen(Sephiroth_VII)
Reading the Wiki, it sounds a lot like stability *is *the goal of an LTS. >From the Ubuntu Wiki(I've added the red for emphasis): Release Plan Details > >1. > >We are more conservative in our package merge with Debian, >auto-synching with Debian *testing*, instead of Debian unstable.

Re: [Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-02 Thread Vishal Rao
I believe "LTS" just means "Long Term Supported" and not necessarily more or less "stable" :-) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://h

Re: [Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-02 Thread Walter Wittel
I think this is a great idea! However I would furthermore consider calling the LTS a Release Candidate (RC) for the first 6 months to allow for some stabilization where only must-fix things that didn't meet the 6 month deadline and security fixes get included. Sort of like waiting on Microsoft for

[Ayatana] Promoting the LTS

2010-04-02 Thread Nicholas Ipsen(Sephiroth_VII)
I think we should use the website redesign as an opportunity to promote the LTS over the regular releases. We get a lot of complaints from new users in the forums, who complain that the standard releases aren't stable enough for them. I think promoting the LTS more would alleviate this problem. At