Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2026, 18:15:44 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Marco Martin: > Hi all, > I'm speaking with my Techpaladin hat here. We have a client (Kubuntu Focus, > which they are KDE patrons as well) which is interested in long commercial > support for Plasma 6.6, alongside accompanying Gear applications and > frameworks. > This is for Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, which means: > * Plasma 6.6 > * Frameworks 6.24 > * Gear 25.12 (unfortunately not 26.4)
Let me congratulate and thank both Kubuntu Focus and Techpaladin for doing this important work and wanting to do it upstream! I find this effort so awesome that I thought I have to answer on it :-) > > We would continue to backport and test the relevant bugfixes for the time > being, > point releases would continue to be made out of such backports. > > They will also sponsor to the eV the necessary CI nodes to continue CI for > those branches, as long they are supported. > > Now the delicate part is frameworks, which as of today it doesn't have a > stable branch, but since Kubuntu can't upgrade frameworks in its LTS, such > a stable maintenance branch would need to be created, which would be a > first. > > We (as in Techpaladin) pledge to take up the maintenance of such branch as > long as it's supported, managing backports, testing and releases, as well > as keeping the new CI nodes green I think there is no problem using the normal branch names without any Kubuntu or Enterprise branch naming. The only important thing is that the communication is clear: * no expectation that there will be another LTS branch in future * corporate backing, no community effort * no promises from community * no expectations that bugs get backported * community members should not be pushed into backporting The last point might also require that we prepare some text templates for social media and bug reports when users demand that a bug fix gets backported. Cheers Martin
