On behalf of Ubuntu Budgie, we'd like to re-qualify for LTS status for 3 years of the 26.04 stable cycle. Our team is https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev and I am the primary contact with Mauro Gaspari as backup.
We have successfully managed the LTS status for 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and ongoing for 24.04; we have participated successfully for all interim/standard releases. We believe the current team can additionally manage the LTS period for 26.04 for 3 years. Our primary support arrangements are through where our community engages the team. 1. issues raised via our discourse site discourse.ubuntubudgie.org, 2. formal bug reports via launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntubudgie 3. formal bug reports via our github projects https://github.com/ubuntubudgie 4. formal bug reports via our key packages 5. formal bug reports via our upstream https://github.com/buddiesofbudgie/budgie-desktop These are our expected key packages for the 26.04 cycle https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-control-center https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-extras https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/labwc https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arc-theme https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-backgrounds https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop-environment https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop-view https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-indicator-applet https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-artwork https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm-settings https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slick-greeter Please do note - we will be moving to wayland for the 26.04 cycle and three further key packages will be part of our support arrangements once they have been sponsored either by Debian or Ubuntu - crystal-dock, budgie-daemon-v2, budgie-display-configurator. Upstream is expected to tag our wayland release packages by COP December. Ubuntu Budgie is formally part of the upstream budgie project called buddiesofbudgie https://github.com/buddiesofbudgie Our aim is to upstream any fixes. The vast majority of issues we have made during the 20.04 through to 24.04 LTS periods have been git cherry-picks from the latest development release. The team consists of eleven people https://ubuntubudgie.org/team/ four of which are primarily developers with various roles to resolve issues and test. We primarily maintain the key packages via Debian with the exception of the version of budgie-desktop-environment which is maintained in ubuntu N.B. Debian we maintain the same named package but is tailored for Debian. I'm the DM for the packages. A couple of team members help package updates with myself validating before pushing. I also have packageset rights for Ubuntu Budgie. The aim we have is to have at least one further team member to gain individual rights for packages they are most familiar with. We will assess later when it's appropriate to request an expansion of packageset rights at a later date. We have adhered to the expectations for flavours https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors and can confirm we have always contributed actively to all phases including beta, RC and release. We try to always have at least two team members contactable via matrix - #ubuntu-release & #ubuntu-flavors. David (project lead) -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
