Hi Erich, Thanks for taking the time to elaborate - this looks great. Can I please ask that once a suitable location is established for Edubuntu that these details be documented there too?
Cheers, Alex On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 10:54:52 -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Since this is the first LTS for Edubuntu in 10 years, I understand the need > for a few more details than provided for Ubuntu Studio. Unfortunately, > there's a few caveats with regards to a semi-permanent location: > > * The current edubuntu.org website is a temporary placeholder until IS > works on the RT for bringing back the original edubuntu.org website that was > sunset not 6 months prior to my RT. > * The entire wiki area for Edubuntu is severely outdated and, considering > everything is moving to discourse[1], I don't recommend anyone use it. > > With that in mind, I think the semi-permanent location will have to be this > very thread in the lists.ubuntu.com archives. > > Now, on to the main topic (statement of support): > > * Edubuntu 24.04 LTS will be supported for 3 years. > * Our support is limited to the educational and instructional packages we > include as well as our own developed utilities (e.g. Edubuntu Installer, > Edubuntu Menu) as well as any GNOME extensions we provide > (gnome-shell-extensions-alphabetical-menu) > * The desktop environment is maintained by the Ubuntu Desktop team as > Edubuntu is mostly an add-on to the Ubuntu Minimal seed. > * Most applications come from Debian and are maintained upstream. > * GNOME packages not maintained by the Ubuntu Desktop team are maintained > by the Debian GNOME team. We work closely with Jeremy Bicha for advice and > bugs on these packages. > * Bugs are filed against packages in Launchpad. > > I think that should cover it. > > Thanks, > Erich > > [1] > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-documentation-modernization-initiative/33116 > > For that reason, we'll just > > On 11/26/23 22:30, Alex Murray wrote: >> Hi Erich, >> >> Thanks for submitting this - it's great to see Edubuntu coming back into >> the LTS fold :) >> >> From my perspective the only thing missing here is a statement of the >> level of support that users can expect for Edubuntu 24.04 LTS. Similar >> to the thread for Ubuntu Studio >> (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2023-November/002796.html) >> can you please also provide a statement on the support plan? As part of >> this could you also please include details on where users should file >> bugs etc since even though Launchpad is the defacto for Ubuntu it may >> not be the case for flavors, so it would be good to have this stated >> explicitly even if this is the case for Edubuntu too. >> >> Finally, would you also be able to also have this support info >> documented somewhere semi-permanent like the wiki or on edubuntu.org? >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 08:19:54 -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >> >>> Good morning technical board, >>> >>> For the first time in 10 years, Edubuntu would like to qualify for LTS >>> status for 24.04. We have had two successful non-LTS releases as an >>> official Ubuntu flavor again and have a solid team (~edubuntu-dev). >>> I'll serve as primary point of contact for development purposes with >>> amypenguin serving as secondary contact/team lead. Support period would >>> be 3 years. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Erich >>> -- >>> Erich Eickmeyer >>> Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio >>> Technical Lead - Edubuntu >>> >>> -- >>> technical-board mailing list >>> technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
