On Friday, February 07, 2014 20:28:55 Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:24:23PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:00:12AM -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > > > 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? > > > > For the record, this has the Foundations Team's support as well (we've > > already discussed the resourcing considerations). So unless someone knows > > of a reason why we *shouldn't* go ahead with this, I think the main > > question here is whether the flavors want to participate. > > Speaking with my Edubuntu flavor lead hat on, we'd be happy to participate.
If there's a 12.04.5, Kubuntu will participate. Scott K -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
