Interesting thread :-) I'm looking forward to 14.04 and hope that Lubuntu will get 5 years of long time support, and that quite a lot of efforts will be made to keep drivers for old hardware as well as new features and drivers for new hardware.
Best regards Nio On 2013-08-16 03:47, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Ronnie, > > the devs did not actually want a 13.10, it was desired that we skipped > it and concentrated on the 14.04 LTS. With the changes in support time > for desktop systems it became apparent that we must do so, else our > 13.04 release would go EOL (End Of Life) before 14.04 LTS was released. > This is an inconvienence which has been accepted and embraced. 13.10 > will be fully stable (what else would you expect?). Such timings are > also apparent to us in XP going EOL shortly before 13.10 is released.... > Talk about timing!!!! There is an upcoming v-UDS[1] which I am sure that > our head of dev will hold a session on. There is also an area > 'lubuntu-brainstorming' [2] that is structured to allow 'wish lists' to > be created, discussed on and then proposed to the dev team. There are > currently some RL things also going on, which is why that area is not > yet 'live'. > > Be patient, all roads are set up to lead to 14.04 LTS. I'm sure you will > agree that the devs concentrating their long term goals to 14.04 LTS > whilst ensuring we have a rock solid stable 13.10 is the correct decision. > > Regards, > > Phill. > 1. http://uds.ubuntu.com/ > 2. https://launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming > > > On 16 August 2013 01:36, Mr Wislr <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > perhaps a progression of testing ppa wouldn't be so bad, sorta like the > 'steps' of debian, where users could test and or use different stages > of testing packages and a packages progression could be measured by the > sheer number of submitted / known bugs. The fewer reports for a certain > period of time grants a step to the next phase to 'stable' > > i'm sure there are a thousands different things just like what i > described and i remember things back in the day working very similarly > i figured the lubuntu staging ppa was the same, i guess things have > changed regarding the testing process. > > --Ronnie > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
