Hey folks. I already brought [this topic][1] up on our Ubuntu Discourse instance, but wanted to reiterate it here as I believe that this is ultimately a decision for the Technical Board.
We have 3 flavors right now that are deprecated and inactive for development, but according to the release notes, they’re still supported until April 2019: * Edbuntu Trusty Tahr * Mythbuntu Xenial Xerus * Ubuntu GNOME Xenial Xerus The issue is that there remains misleading information that could be particularly problematic for users: * all list support methods which do not exist (the mailing lists are it and I'm not even sure that's a reliable methodology) * the release notes do not provide next steps (even though they are sometimes documented elsewhere) for upgrades after support ends * for the latter two, there's no clear plan on implementing the final point release I think these issues illustrate a problem that we have: while we have a great process for integrating a new flavor, we have no process set in place to allow a flavor to step down considerately. You can see the discussion hasn't got very far, so I don't know that I have much to contribute to it, but I would suggest that we have a user-centric process of some kind that ensures clear access to information. I know you are facing the changing of the guard for the Technical Board, so perhaps it's best to delay this until that change happens, but I wanted to at least get it on the table. Thanks! [1]: https://community.ubuntu.com/t/support-for-deprecated-flavors/6191 -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
