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
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