2013/11/18 Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> > > On 2013-11-18 12:54, Julien Lavergne wrote: > > Before talking about the future of Lubuntu, you have to know and realize > > the followings facts : > > > > - My availability will not improve in the future. That means I will > > focus on fixing stuff, improving lxsession stuff, try to do some > > documentation, and prepare the future. > > > > - We have to consider that no one will magically appear to improve the > > code of Lubuntu. It's the case since many months, and I don't think it > > will magically change for the next 6 months. We also don't have the > > infrastructure (documentation, clean process, availability of mentors > > ...) to correctly train new people on the devs team, so even if new > > young and enthusiastic people arrive, they can't really help us if they > > need training, guidance ...We may have some outside help on specific > > topics or bugs, but it will not change deeply Lubuntu as we know it. If > > eventually someone comes with actual work (mean, actual working code), > > we can still consider it if it's well tested. > > I think we *must* find a way to engage new people to develop Lubuntu, > even if it would mean completely new ways of doing it. This is > particularly important since your availability will not improve in the > future. >
Sure, but currently, I don't know any magic way to do it with our current situation. > > > - LXDE is dying. Well, except pcmanfm, all components are frozen and > > will probably not going to see any improvements in the next 6 months. > > Expect only bug fixes and translations updates. > > > > - LXQt (the merge of Razor-qt and LXDE, using Qt instead of GTK) is > > slowly taking the place of the LXDE GTK. All work are done on this > branch. > > > > Considering this, and the result of the previous release, we have to > > admit that we need to focus on fixing bugs for 14.04. We can't introduce > > new functionalities and new stuff, unless it fixes bugs, or if someone > > from outside the Lubuntu dev team is actively working on it. In the > > short-term, that means : > > Does this mean that you don't think it is worth the effort to supply LTS > for 14.04? In that case, what should we tell the users with old > hardware, who do not want to hop between versions every 6 months: > > - use Xubuntu until April 2015 > - use LXLE > - use Precise Gnome Classic Tweak > - use Bodhi Linux > > or something else? > I still think we can do an LTS. If we don't, we have to maintain a GTK version for next releases, or switch to a Qt version with a risk of breakage and instability. Doing an LTS, even if it's not perfectly stable and maintained, will give us the time we need. Regards, Julien Lavergne
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