Hello Rik, Kubuntu Thank you Rik, for your clear and well set out email. I can see merits in both approaches, and from a technical perspective I would have chosen solution B.
However, my primary concern is with our users, and providing them with the best KDE based distro in a way they have come to expect. With that perspective firmly in mind I believe A is the right way forward. I say A is the correct approach. Best Wishes Rick On Mon, 21 May 2018 09:12 Rik Mills, <[email protected]> wrote: > Our default PPA policy for LTS releases states that [1] > > "Monthly KDE software release backports are made available through the > Kubuntu PPA for as long as supported by the native LTS software stack > but no longer than 2 years." > > For 16.04 LTS we allowed an upgrade of Qt in the backports PPA [2] from > 5.5 to 5.6.x, however this was not altogether a radical decision as the > Qt 5.6 release was a LTS one, and already being built and maintained by > the Ubuntu phone/Qt team in their overlay PPA. > > For 18.04 LTS, we are already on Qt 5.9 LTS, with more point releases to > come, hopefully as SRU updates to the main archive. > > Now Plasma 5.13 requires Qt => 5.10, so we need to discuss and decide an > acceptable course of action, assuming that we wish to provide this and > future updates update via a PPA to our users. > > Realistic options are IMO: > > (a) Provide updated Qt once again in our backports PPA, but make it > quite clear that the level of support, both immediate an ongoing, if > users choose to add that and upgrade will be limited by the fact that > they are deliberately choosing to move off an LTS supported stack. > > (b) Keep backports PPA building against Qt 5.9.x, and provide Plasma > backports and other software dependant on newer non-LTS Qt in a separate > more 'experimental' PPA. > > (c) Something else? Comment welcome. > > For simplicity (a) is appealing, and more or less what users seem to be > expecting us to do for them. (b) however has some advantages as it would > perhaps allow users (say organisational ones) to upgrade to new KDE > Applications releases (18.04, 18.08 etc) and others backports, without > moving off LTS supported Qt, assuming future Apps are compatible. > > With Plasma 5.13 as few weeks away [3], and bugfix release to that which > we would probably want to wait for before pushing to a not experimental > location, not to mention getting Qt built, we have some thinking time. I > would also note the decision will be tempered by practical and technical > considerations the development team find while doing test builds, and > evaluating the quality and stability of the non LTS Qt. > > Thank you. I look forward to comments. > > Rik Mills > Kubuntu Council > Kubuntu Developer > > [1] https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/Policies#Long_Term_Support_.28LTS.29 > [2] https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports > [3] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5 > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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