On 4 March 2013 16:35, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > For some derivatives that may be the case, but it would seem for Kubuntu > specifically Canonical now has vested interest in keeping the Qt stack > working really well and will start to pick up work that has been done by > Kubuntu-devs previously free'ing time to working other more KDE specific > stuff. I don't know, seems like a golden time for Kubuntu to me.
I don't know; a rolling release next month doesn't seem to me to be a golden time for Ubuntu or the flavors. I'd like the ability to recommend a reasonably stable Ubuntu with the latest GNOME stable release. For GNOME 3.8, this was scheduled to happen next October (for 13.10). Now it sounds like we can recommend users either run an LTS with a new GNOME release every 2 years or they could try running the daily build. Those running the daily build have little protection from a broken upload so that's a very scary idea to me. Personally I've been running the Ubuntu development release for years now, but it's the early adopter non-developers that will be hurt badly by this especially in the first six months. If we fail to keep the development release mostly stable, then Ubuntu's standing will be hurt as most major distros release once or twice per year, not just once every two years. Ubuntu will be taking on a lot of risk if we push the rolling release too quickly. I want to be able to recommend the non-LTS Ubuntu to any of the "power users" in my LUG but until we have the capability to hold a huge potentially disruptive update (like GNOME 3.6 > 3.8 or a new X stack or a new kernel, etc.) for at least a few days first, I won't be able to recommend they use anything but the LTS or another distro. Since currently much of the featured Ubuntu desktop uses GNOME components, it's not feasible to backport new GNOME releases without breaking parts of the Unity experience. This seems to put Ubuntu GNOME in the same bad position as Kubuntu. Jeremy -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
