On 5/12/26 6:15 PM, Marco Martin wrote:
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,
Why can't they?
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
As far as the infrastructure/tooling is concerned there shouldn't be any
blockers.
I do have to wonder though, what if next week somebody comes and wants
an LTS for 6.26?
