Amen to all that. The upcoming LTS should be our best yet, and will take a lot of attention, love, testing, polishing. Anything that doesn't further that should be moved out of the way in my opinion.
+1 On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Rik Mills <rikmi...@kubuntu.org> wrote: > Once the b-series (18.04 development start we would have 4 active series > building on KCI. Xenial, Zesty, Artful and 'b-series'. > > Since we already arguably generate too many builds at present, then I > propose that we retire builds for both Xenial and Zesty. > > Rational for those: > > Xenial - There is little that we are likely to backport to Xenial any > more with the help of KCI, and what individual packages we might can be > test built on a case by case basis. We already have some breakages with > Xenial builds due to difficult to backport dependencies, which is only > going to get worse with time. It would be a better use of time and > resources to concentrate on the upcoming next LTS. > > Zesty - Similar to Xenial, there is little now that we would with to > backport for Zesty. We cannot/should not backport 18.04 versions in the > backports ppa, as this would break Zesty -> Artful upgrades via the > release upgrader when a user had the backports ppa packages installed. > Zesty also only has 3 months worth of life once Artful is released, so > it will be going away soon anyway. > > Thoughts/opinions please? > > Regards > > Rik Mills -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
