Hi Tech Board, I just wanted to send a friendly reminder for some comments on this. It was sent during UDS, so i'm sure it could have easily gotten lost in an e-mail backlog.
Thanks! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Tech Board, > > Kate Steward recommended that I should reach out to the tech board on > behalf of the Mythbuntu team to help get agreement around the plan we want > to follow for our releases going forward. I believe we're a bit different > than the rest of the Ubuntu based flavors in that our users demand much > less churn with their setups as they are generally HTPCs. We have done > some analysis and consequently found that a majority of our user base > gravitate toward LTS releases. > > We currently provide PPA's with stable builds of upstream fixes and new > releases across an intersection of Ubuntu releases as dictated by our PPA > page (www.mythbuntu.org/repos). Upstream has integrated (opt in) > statistics for usage, and LTS dominates (OS tab of > http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html). > > So with all of that said, our team all agrees that it makes more sense to > only ship ISO images of LTS releases. We can continue to provide packages > that work with the archive and misc transitions as the archive evolves > during interim releases. But not creating ISO images at the new interim > releases, we would help cater to what our users are asking for while being > able to reduce our effort with every cycle in fixing every problem related > to the ISO creation. > > We'd still like to spin updated point releases of the LTS releases, but no > new features would be introduced during those point releases. That way we > can still provide updates for the users introducing new hardware that they > need the support from backported kernels and software stack versions. So > we'll still be signed up for testing those respins, it should be a lot less > effort than all the bugs that get introduced with interim releases and need > to be fixed constantly throughout the cycle. > > What does the tech board think of this proposal? > > Thanks, > > -- > Mario Limonciello > [email protected] > -- Mario Limonciello [email protected]
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