Public bug reported:
I believe that Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status.
Rationale:
- Mir missed 13.10, and may not be sufficiently mature to put into 14.04LTS,
although would be acceptable in a non-LTS release.
- Windows XP ceases to get support after April 2014. Anyone looking to Ubuntu
as an upgrade path currently has three choices:
-- Install 13.10, which ceases to be supported only shortly after XP[1]
-- Install 12.04 LTS, which is quite old (but currently the best choice)
-- Wait until the last minute of XP support to install 14.04LTS, which may or
may not work on the XP hardware and prevents any staged migration.
Upgrading 13.10 to LTS status would make Ubuntu a viable choice to be
really pushed out at XP users looking for an upgrade path, and clear the
way for Mir development to take place without the LTS looming. Even if
it is too late to "stop" 14.04 being considered LTS, I believe that the
extra investment required to commit to LTS support for 13.10 would help
make Ubuntu a realistic option for XP refugees, of which there are many.
Note 1: LTS is important for XP refugees because many (most?) of them
will be supported in the migration by other Ubuntu users, often
remotely. Getting them onto a stable platform is essential for turning
them into long term Ubuntu users. 13.10LTS would be perfectly timed for
XP users needing a migration path. Another opportunity like this won't
arise for many years.
[I appreciate that a bug report might not be the best forum for this,
however I don't see any debate about what seems an obvious move for
Canonical, and it seemed to me this forum was the best place to reach
the people best qualified to comment.]
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status
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