Hello Mark and ubuntu-devel, On 29 October 2013 15:56, Mark Rogers <m...@more-solutions.co.uk> wrote: > [Moved here from bug 1245870] >
I've marked the bug "won't fix" and set assignee to Ubuntu Release Team, as common release decisions are delegated to that team by the Ubuntu Technical Committee. This is not the first time when Windows XP EOL date has been brought up to the attention of the Ubuntu Project community. It has been done in a more timely fashion at previous vUDS ahead of 13.10 release and when the 14.04 LTS preliminary schedules were discussed and drafted. At this time 13.10 has already released and is frozen, and the 14.04 LTS is mostly set in stone as well (sans minor wiggle room here and there). All the previous discussions and points raised did not convince Ubuntu Release Team that allusive Windows XP EOL should be in any way considered. Here is a summary of counter-arguments which I have also posted on the bug report: For the record: """ * By default on the www.ubuntu.com website we promote Ubuntu LTS release for download, which has 5 years of support on the Desktop. * Windows XP expire date has been raised before. That sofware has been obsolete for a long time. Users of that software, have already been ignoring the upgrade warnings, thus it's not expected for them to be upgrade savvy. We are confident that 12.04 LTS is a great improvement to Windows XP users, which will be supported for 3 years after XP EOL. Furthermore, some of the hardware typically supported by Windows XP machines (i386, non-PAE) are only supported with 12.04 LTS. Do note that 13.10 defaults to 64-bit images (amd64). * Technically, it might be non-trivial to change support life cycle of a given release, since support status of packages is published in the archive metadata, which is GPG signed and is frozen at release and not changed. (as in "raring" suit never changes, "raring-*" do change throughout the support lifetime of a realease to provide security and bugfix updates). For similar reasons, we also rejected the idea to shifting 14.04 LTS release dates, based around Windows XP expiry dates. Also note, this is not the first time "Windows XP" was declared EOL, the dates have been pushed back before by Microsoft and it may happen again. """ Of course, Windows XP EOL is a good strategic timing for Ubuntu advocacy and targeted marketing. And Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i386 CD-ROMS / ISOs or any other official flavors are an excellent product for promotion to, still existing, Windows XP users. [*] [*] do note that majority of Windows XP installations were 32-bit and booted of CD-ROMS instead of USB (as is more common these days) ps. probably something better than posters of "Revive your computer back to life with [L|X|K|Edu]Ubuntu or others" -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel