On Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:10:02 PM Ted Gould wrote: > As we're hitting beta freeze for this LTS I think it's a good time to > talk about something that gets discussed from time to time, but we > should commit to for this round of the meta-cycle. That is quite simply > having a process for things that aren't in the 6m release cycle, but > instead on the LTS meta-cycle. Obviously this can't be decided on this > mailing list, it'll require a UDS discussion and tech board approval, > but I think it's good to start here. > > As an concrete example of something that could be done on this meta > cycle I think we should start talking about technology transitions. > Things that we don't want to carry, or transitions that we want to > encourage. And also things that we're willing to take the pain of > dealing with, either by dropping packages we love or by committing > development effort to that transition. I image many of these will be > hard for various communities. But, I think this is part of Ubuntu's > charter of making opinionated choices for continued inclusion. > > Here is what I'm proposing as a schedule for a transition: > > LTS + 1: No MIRs approved using the old tech > LTS + 2: Old tech not allowed in main, packages demoted at FF > LTS + 3: Only bug fixes allowed to packages, no syncs, no updates > except to migrate to the new tech. > LTS + 4: Packages dropped at FF that use the old tech > ^ Probably the next LTS > > For the Precise + 1LTS release I'll start to propose the following > transitions: > > Python 2.x -> Python 3 > GConf -> GSettings > GTK2 -> GTK3 > Qt4 -> Qt5 > > I think there should be an exception process that would get release team > approval like a standard freeze. But, in general, this should be > discouraged (like all freeze exceptions are). > > Any suggestions before I try to formalize this further?
Since Qt5 isn't even released yet, I think that may be premature. In any case Main/Universe is really an internal Canonical issue. It's not one the community can really weigh in on. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
