FYI How does this align with our planning?
Stephen Michael Kellat In the basement cafeteria on lunch Begin forwarded message: > From: Leann Ogasawara <[email protected]> > Date: February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: [RFC] 12.04.5 > > Hi All, > > With 12.04.4 having just released, I wanted to propose the idea of having a > 12.04.5 point release for Precise. > > As many are aware, recent 12.04.x point releases have shipped with a newer > kernel and X stack by default for hardware enablement purposes. Maintainers > of these enablement stacks have agreed to support these until a Trusty based > enablement stack is supported in Precise. Once a Trusty enablement stack is > supported, all previous enablement stacks would EOL and be asked to migrate > to the final Trusty based enablement stack which would continue to be > supported for the remaining life of Precise. > > Currently, 12.04.4 is our final point release for Precise. 12.04.4 shipped > with a Saucy enablement stack by default. This Saucy enablement stack in > Precise will eventually EOL in favor of the Trusty enablement stack. Once > that happens, our final point release for Precise will be delivering an EOL'd > enablement stack. This seems unfortunate and inappropriate. I would like to > propose having a 5th point release for Precise which would deliver the Trusty > enablement stack for Precise. > > Providing a 12.04.5 point release will add no additional maintenance burden > upon teams supporting enablement stacks in Precise. It would require some > extra effort on part of the Canonical Foundations Team as well as the Ubuntu > Release Team to spin up an additional set of images and testing coordination > etc. However, I informally discussed this with a few members of each of > those teams and the tentative agreement was that 12.04.5 was a reasonable > request which could be accommodated. Collectively we could find no > compelling reason to not provide 12.04.5. We also discussed that a 12.04.5 > release should be optional for the Flavors to participate in. Additionally, > we would want to purposely avoid clashing the 14.04.1 and 12.04.5 release > dates and would suggest releasing 14.04.1 first and 12.04.5 after (exact date > TBD). > > What are other's thoughts here? Does anyone have a compelling reason for not > providing a 12.04.5 point release? > > Thanks, > Leann > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
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