Re: [Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS - Message from Ubuntu GNOME Technical Lead]

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:00:10 -0800


On 19/12/13 05:02, Manuel Cuadra wrote:
Yes I also have the same question, what are the Gnome changes in 14.04 that need much testing?
So far, we have gtk updated to 3.10, a new kernel, new Mesa, probably there will be a new X server and most of the underlying libraries will be updated. In short there will be lots of changes that need testing, even if the user 'visible' changes are minimal.

As for the GNOME side, it will be a 3.8 base, with as much of 3.10 as we can get in (already quite a few apps are at 3.10). gnome-shell should hopefully be updated to 3.10 also. Beyond that its not entirely clear right now, however with Canonical forking gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center hopefully we can get them up to 3.10 also, in which case it will be more 3.10 than 3.8

I am also a little worried about Gnome is talking a route that will be more compatible with Wayland display server, but Ubuntu will go for the MIR display server, how will this affect the next ubuntu-gnome releases? Will this be a problem? or I´m just worrying for nothing?
The whole MIR vs Wayland thing, is entirely irrelevant for now.
Ubuntu 14.04 is using X. X is not going to just disappear overnight! Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 will likely continue using X, even if Ubuntu switch to Mir. At some point in the distant future we will probably switch to wayland, but right now its not even close to being ready.

Tim


2013/12/18 Fran Dieguez <[email protected]>
On mié 18 dic 2013 08:40:49 CET, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
Hi,

"All has been a bit quiet around here, if we are going to make a LTS
release happen we are going to need a bit more activity!" [1]

Ubuntu GNOME will NOT magically be an LTS release all by itself. WE DO
need to work hard enough to achieve that. Ubuntu GNOME Community never
let us down with 13.10 and the result was a super stable release and
almost everyone is happy. NOW, it is TIME to do that yet again and go
the extra miles. Let's do it :)

Join us and MAKE IT HAPPEN:
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[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome-packaging/msg00024.html

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14.04 release is supposed to maintain the 3.8 release (correct me if I'm wrong) so I think in the technical perspective there isn't a huge work needed. So:

What special kind of work is required to do a LTS release?

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