Re: Time for LTS (was: Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?)

[Tim]

On 03/10/13 17:10, Erick Brunzell wrote: On 10/02/2013 10:27 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Whether this is a shocking news or not, I guess I have to share it here and read your opinion about this :) http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/ubuntu-1404-lts-to-stay-on-gtkgnome-38.html Read the link carefully before replying :) Thanks! -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, amjjawad Areas of Involvement My Projects If this decision is true and they will go for it, then I see NO valid reason why not have Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 as an LTS release?! There will be no official Ubuntu GNOME LTS Release, we simply don't have the man power to commit to maintaining it. We will however make a best effort to provide support and updated packages where possible. I am NOT a developer but the packages that we will maintain shouldn't be much. That could be the bright/good side of Canonical Plan/Thought. Now, the downside of it: A side of the name, what is the differences between Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 in this case? do we have to release 14.04 if Ubuntu 14.04 will use GNOME 3.8 which is the same what will be shipped with Ubuntu GNOME 13.10? Its really not an issue for Ubuntu, the GNOME stack makes up a pretty minor part of the Ubuntu DE. From the Ubuntu GNOME side its going to have a much greater effect, in that it will really be just a 13.10.1 release. Without an updated GTK there is very little we can update to 3.10. So really it will just be getting the last few 3.8 components in (like gnome-control-center and webkit/ephipany). I don't suppose much else would be blocked so things like kernel, firefox, libreoffice and most other apps (just nothing GNOME specific) should see updates. Anyway there will be a 14.04 release, it probably won't be particularly exciting. It should be rock solid though. What do you think? Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, amjjawad Areas of Involvement My Projects We'd need to release a 14.04 regardless because 13.10 is only supported for 9 months, so we'd have a three month gap with no security updates if we were to skip 14.04. Lance

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