For me it means that repositories will be available/online for many years!
2014-01-30 Harald Sitter <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What does support mean at all in respect to a Kubuntu release? We > > don't spend time fixing bugs in old releases generally. But if a fix > > is available and is requrested by a friendly user we should do the > > update. > > How would a user request a fix though? Usually that is a bug report, > but we have a policy to move upstream reports upstream unless they are > of considerable importance to us. So really there is no forum for the > user to request a fix backport. > On a general note though... should we? Because as I see it, if the > user wants an update for an LTS release then we still need to SRU it > through one or two not-lts releases. So someone will have to invest > some time into verifying the SRU (assuming someone even could do it, > which may not be possible if special hardware is required etc) and I > am going to go out on a limb an say that this someone won't be the > user who wanted to stick with LTS to begin with. As explained in some > other mail, SRUs way too often go south because we are feeling > particularly irie one day and want to fix the world by doing 300000 > SRUs and then later someone has to set aside time to do verfiication > in a VM, for releases probably no one cares about to begin with. > > > Security fixes from KDE upstream and Qt upstream do get > > updated. > > Perhaps that should be the core target? From an Ubuntu POV from what I > understand LTS means enterprise release with a very long time frame > where people can actively push fixes into the release (i.e. the > support time). I failed to find any policy regarding what goes into > LTS and what not or when or why. So at least for Ubuntu LTS seems to > be just that, a SRU target. And if given enough incentive a certain > fix may or may not get backported. Incentive could of course be > business reasons in case someone gets paid to do the SRU, or something > social like when a community member knows a guy who knows a guy who > has a problem with a specific bug in an LTS so that the community > member may be convinced to poke people into getting a SRU going. > Outside this informal incentivation there appars to be no difference > between an LTS release and the regular intermediate releases. > Basically you get security update for a bazillion years and perhaps > occasionally the odd additional bugfix if someone feels particularly > gracious. > > > And we tend to backport new bugfix and feature releases of > > KDE SC and other bits. > > That's a general thing though isn't it. Again, LTS is only special in > that we keep doing this for longer than intermediate releases, they > still both get backports during their respective support time spans. > > HS > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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