+1 also from me to the Ubuntu MATE's 3 years LTS request
Cheers,
Sébastien Bacher
On 19/04/2024 01:50, Alex Murray wrote:
Hi Martin,
On Thu, 2024-04-18 at 14:03:50 +0100, Martin Wimpress wrote:
Hi Alex,
I want to request Ubuntu MATE 24.04 qualification as an LTS release, supported
for 3 years. Key contacts include myself (flexiondotorg), Alan Pope (popey), and
Bill (franksmcb).
We have a small team of active members on the team and are currently moving
team collaboration to an Ubuntu MATE space on the ubuntu.com Matrix.
Support is limited to security and significant bug fixes for the MATE package
set; applications from which are seeded by several of the other flavours.
We also help maintain packaging for several other applications, including
Arctica Greeter, Ayatana Indicators, Blueman and Yaru.
Thanks for providing the details above, I'm assuming then that you are
committing to supporting the packages listed in
https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/packagesets/noble/ubuntu-mate for
3 years?
That is correct.
From https://ubuntu-mate.org/support/ it would appear that the main
support mechanism is the ubuntu-mate.community discourse and associated
LP bug reports against these packages.
LP issues are the main mechanism for reporting issues bugs, packaging
issues and security issues.
Ok, I wonder if perhaps it would be worth documenting this a bit more
clearly since from https://ubuntu-mate.org/support/ it seems more like
the discourse is the primary means for reporting issue - I realise there
are some notes right at the bottom of that page about reporting bugs but
perhaps this could be a bit more prominent via a section under
"Community Support" that explicitly mentions reporting bugs?
However, I've been talking to the Ubuntu Community team about more
closely aligning the Ubuntu MATE community spaces with the Ubuntu
community spaces. The move to Matrix was the first step, and adding
Ubuntu MATE category to the Ubuntu Discourse and using AskUbuntu for
Ubuntu MATE support is underway with assistance from the community
team.
Nice!
One question I have to ask is that from what I see over in the Ubuntu
MATE discourse is that various folks seem to think you are focusing on
NixOS now and have abandoned Ubuntu MATE
(https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/plans-for-24-04-lts/27110/14,
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/plans-for-24-04-lts/27110/22) - although
I can see you have been active in the ubuntu-mate github
organisation. Can you clarify what your personal plans are going forward
for Ubuntu MATE and specifically what that looks like for the proposed 3
year timeframe for a possible 24.04 LTS?
Working with Nix and NixOS is a big part of my day job. I will maintain
Ubuntu MATE for the 24.04 LTS life cycle and the support window for
future interim releases. That said, I am keen on bringing some new
maintainers into Ubuntu MATE and mentoring them to bring some fresh
ideas to future releases of Ubuntu MATE. I'll be posting a CTA for this
after the 24.04 release.
Thanks for the reassurance.
From the TB point of view, I am satisfied that Ubuntu MATE meets the
requirements for a 3 year LTS for 24.04. +1 from me.
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Regards, Martin.
Cheers,
Alex
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