On Friday, February 07, 2014 09:41:29 Harald Sitter wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, February 06, 2014 11:27:02 Harald Sitter wrote: > >> Thanks for the thoughts. > >> > >> As I am currently writing a policy on this matter, currently the > >> characteristics of a Kubuntu LTS seem to be: > >> > >> * Long-term KDE SC backport target (PPA) > >> * Long-term security update target (-security) > >> * Long-term stable update target (-proposed) [stable updates policy > >> applies - ensuring time is not wasted] > >> * Extra permissive stable release update handling while LTS=latest stable > >> > >> Anyone got any final additions/objections? > > > > What does the last one mean in practical terms? The stable update > > permissions we have are from the tech board, so we can't modify them > > unilaterally. > tldr: policy creates artificial requirements before being able to do a > SRU that is not a patch release, those requirements are to be ignored > for the first 6 months to facilitate plentiful annoyance fixes in an > LTS release. > > Another policy deals with when to do SRUs, it is intended to restrict > SRUs to the most likely to succeed subset as to avoid time waste. I > was thinking that up to 6 months after LTS release a more lax > restriction (alas, permissive was a badly chosen word) should apply > because in practise we usually push more SRUs into LTS after its > release (compared to regular releases anyway). > To reflect this LTS releases should be encouraged to receive plenty of > SRUs the first 6 months, and for that the requirements for > availability of testers and all that should be disregarded during that > period. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Policies#Misc_.28.28NEW.29.29
OK. How about "additional emphasis on" instead of "extra permissive"? We can't be more permissive than the SRU team rules allow without additional exceptions from the tech board. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
