I was thinking today about the possibility of not releasing a new ISO
every 6 months, and instead focus more on the LTS releases. For example,
we could release only once every year, or once every two years, even.
But, what would this mean for Ubuntu Studio?
* Users would still be able to upgrade
That's similar to Mint's path, as they are are switching to basing only on
LTS releases with backports at least through 16.04. This even though they
will still do a release of their own every 6 months.
On 8/26/2014 at 12:32 PM, "Kaj Ailomaa" wrote:
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>I was thinking today about the possibility o
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> I was thinking today about the possibility of not releasing a new ISO
> every 6 months, and instead focus more on the LTS releases. For example,
> we could release only once every year, or once every two years, even.
>
> But, what would this m
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014, at 10:22 PM, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
> I'm not sure how backporting works, but if that would mean the users
> would
> have a LTS base and get newer applications I think that might be the best
> way to go. Also with some documentation on how to preserve the "ordinary"
> LTS vers
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014, at 10:22 PM, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
I'm not sure how backporting works, but if that would mean the users
would
have a LTS base and get newer applications I think that might be the best
way to go. Also with some documentation on how to
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> I was thinking today about the possibility of not releasing a new ISO
> every 6 months, and instead focus more on the LTS releases. For example,
> we could release only once every year, or once every two years, even.
>
i say, call a meeting,
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
We could put more emphasis on the LTS and recommend our users to install
that over the latest release on our home page. And design the download
page so that the LTS will seem like the logical first choice.
+1
We have had the switch to xfce and rapid cha
Ok, so I think there's an agreement on that we should focus more on the
LTS releases.
Just to clarify - we can't change the development period for an Ubuntu
Studio release, since we share it with all the other Ubuntu flavors. All
Ubuntu Studio packages are available on all other flavors, and thus
