Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Release Cycle for 18.04

2018-04-11 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: I’ve been speaking with Simon Quigley and he suggested that, due to manpower, we drop 18.04 from being LTS and just go with a 9-month release for this cycle. Thoughts? This is OK with me. I don't know that it changes anything, wouldn't the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Release Cycle for 18.04

2018-04-11 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: On the other hand, it would be good to have an LTS always available. Many users prefer not to have to constantly update. Our 16.04 LTS will not be supported after April 2019. Ross Yeah, that’s the sucky part. It means taking steps

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Release Cycle for 18.04

2018-04-11 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
> On the other hand, it would be good to have an LTS always available. Many > users prefer not to have to constantly update. Our 16.04 LTS will not be > supported after April 2019. > Ross > Yeah, that’s the sucky part. It means taking steps backward as far as being an LTS flavor, but if we

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Release Cycle for 18.04

2018-04-11 Thread Ross Gammon
+1 No point claiming support if there isn't any. We have really only relied on the fact that Xubuntu were helping to support our desktop, and everything in "main" being supported by Canonical. We have not had the manpower for SRU (Stable Release Updates) for the other multimedia packages we care