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)
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
