(using questions silverlion posed for release announcements) (a) What's going to be new in the upcoming release?
Like all point releases, this is simply a matter of including the latest updates for newer hardware in X and the kernel. That, and it includes all the latest necessary security updates so that it's quicker and easier to update. (b) What kind of updates are we doing? See above :) (c) Are we changing anything special? (for example: change of the DE → LXQt?) (d) Are we planning anything special like a contest for wallpapers etc.? Nope. (e) What will be our main goal for this release? See goals for point releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PointReleaseProcess I quote: Refresh hardware support in LTS releases for carefully-selected hardware Roll up accumulated stable updates into updated images to reduce download requirements for new deployments Maintain stability of existing installations (a) “Half-Time”-Report: How are things going? Anything unexpected during the latest period? We had to delay the release for two weeks because of a problem with X metapackages that the release team (mainly Adam Conrad/infinity) spent countless days trying to fix, often without sleep. Seriously, lots of kudos there. We had numerous respins while we tried to fix the problem and had less than 24 hours to do the actual final manual testing! (b) The Updates we planned to include: Are they all going to come? If not → Why not?! Yep. (a) Statement by Release-Manager & Head of Dev: Did everything go as expected? No! :) See above (b) Did we have to skip any planned things from #1? Yes. We were not able to fix alternates. Release Team will be working on trying to fix this particular problem for future point releases. Note they'd like us to stop doing alternates in lieu of netboot, but that's not really a good solution. We have been discussing making a low resource version of ubiquity. Maybe even the server team would use it? (c) What's the latest “news” about the release? We made it!!!! (d) What can users expect from this release we're talking about? Same experience, but better. :) For people using the latest hardware, they'll have improved support. This could allow people that can only make Utopic work switch to the stable experience of LTS. There are also plenty of other changes that I'm excited about, like KVM updates in the kernel. -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
