[RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Hi All,

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?

Thanks,
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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Adam Conrad
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.

FWIW, I think the engineering burden for doing this is worth the trade
off for it being The Right Thing To Do.

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Package testing - XFCE Core Group

2014-02-07 Thread Elfy

Phew ...  it's all a bit thick and fast at the moment ...

So following on from the other package testing we've been doing - it's 
time for the next group of tests.


*XFCE Core *

You can find them in the same place as the others -

http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/306/builds/55995/testcases

I promise that there will be just one more call for a group of tests - 
and I left the best one till last, the smallest :)


That said - we will be calling as soon as we can for testing for the few 
things we haven't landed yet that will need testing, I'll leave that for 
another day.


Now that we've cracked the majority of the package tests - the field 
should be clear for the Beta images - which are due at the ends of 
February and March.



Many thanks for your work helping to test Trusty with us.

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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Tim Gardner
On 02/07/2014 09:00 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 With 12.04.4 having just released, I wanted to propose the idea of
 having a 12.04.5 point release for Precise.
 

+1

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Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
FYI

How does this align with our planning?

Stephen Michael Kellat 
In the basement cafeteria on lunch


Begin forwarded message:

 From: Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 Date: February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
 To: ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: [RFC] 12.04.5
 
 Hi All,
 
 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?
 
 Thanks,
 Leann
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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On 02/07/2014 11:00 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 With 12.04.4 having just released, I wanted to propose the idea of having a
 12.04.5 point release for Precise.
 
+1

I don't think we can reasonably do anything else.

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Re: Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release 12.04.5
as is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core after .4. On the
other hand, if there is something we want in, it's another possibility
to get stuff in an ISO, not just updates.

I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support for
12.04, so not sure if it makes any difference to land big SRU's now,
since people need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat shortly anyway.

Cheers,
Pasi

On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
 FYI

 How does this align with our planning?

 Stephen Michael Kellat 
 In the basement cafeteria on lunch


 Begin forwarded message:

 *From:* Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 mailto:leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
 *To:* ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com
 mailto:ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com,
 ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 *Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5*

 Hi All,

 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?

 Thanks,
 Leann
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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Stephen Michael Kellat
skel...@fastmail.net wrote:
 FYI

 How does this align with our planning?

If it goes as smoothly as past point releases, it would require us to
do testing of the ISOs but I don't think much else (unless we want
to).

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Re: Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Roberto J Dohnert
Aside from the trusty enablment stack, the only other compelling piece 
would be XFCE 4.12, which I cant seem to get a precise, no pun intended, 
release date.  Releasing the trusty kernel through updates would be 
optimal.  Of course, we, the Black Lab Linux team, are supporting 12.04 
for two years past the scheduled Ubuntu support date until 2019.  So, we 
may do a 14.10 stack as our last major release, we may work on that for 
Xubuntu as well.  But that will be determined on where 14.04 LTS is at 
that time.


Roberto J. Dohnert
Lead Developer
Black Lab Linux
http://www.blacklablinux.org

On 02/07/2014 02:30 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release 12.04.5 
as is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core after .4. On 
the other hand, if there is something we want in, it's another 
possibility to get stuff in an ISO, not just updates.


I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support for 
12.04, so not sure if it makes any difference to land big SRU's now, 
since people need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat shortly anyway.


Cheers,
Pasi

On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:

FYI

How does this align with our planning?

Stephen Michael Kellat
In the basement cafeteria on lunch


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*Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
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mailto:ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com, 
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

*Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5*

Hi All,

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?


Thanks,
Leann
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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Stéphane Graber
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:20:06AM -0700, Adam Conrad 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.
 
 FWIW, I think the engineering burden for doing this is worth the trade
 off for it being The Right Thing To Do.

+1

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Re: Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
If there is enough interest and motivation from the community (including
people who can actually help with the SRU), it can be discussed. As
Jackson, I don't personally think it as a realistic thing to do at the
moment either.

Pasi

On 07/02/14 22:03, Jackson Doak wrote:
 4.12 will be difficult to get to 14.04, let alone backporting it all
 the way to precise


 On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Roberto J Dohnert
 robertdohn...@gmail.com mailto:robertdohn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Aside from the trusty enablment stack, the only other compelling
 piece would be XFCE 4.12, which I cant seem to get a precise, no
 pun intended, release date.  Releasing the trusty kernel through
 updates would be optimal.  Of course, we, the Black Lab Linux
 team, are supporting 12.04 for two years past the scheduled Ubuntu
 support date until 2019.  So, we may do a 14.10 stack as our last
 major release, we may work on that for Xubuntu as well.  But that
 will be determined on where 14.04 LTS is at that time.

 Roberto J. Dohnert
 Lead Developer
 Black Lab Linux
 http://www.blacklablinux.org

 On 02/07/2014 02:30 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
 If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release
 12.04.5 as is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core
 after .4. On the other hand, if there is something we want in,
 it's another possibility to get stuff in an ISO, not just updates.

 I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support
 for 12.04, so not sure if it makes any difference to land big
 SRU's now, since people need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat shortly
 anyway.

 Cheers,
 Pasi

 On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
 FYI

 How does this align with our planning?

 Stephen Michael Kellat 
 In the basement cafeteria on lunch


 Begin forwarded message:

 *From:* Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 mailto:leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
 *To:* ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com
 mailto:ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com,
 ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 *Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5*

 Hi All,

 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?

 Thanks,
 Leann
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Re: Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Richard Elkins
12.04.4 ISO installation testing looks good from a test case perspective
(my experience).  As stated below by Pasi, it would be possible to
handle 12.04.4 to 12.04.5 via package updates and leave it alone for
the most part.

So, I'd rather see effort put in the customer migration of 12.04.x to
14.04 (combination of documentation, automation, and manual process). 
Moving from current LTS to new LTS has a higher payoff for all concerned.

Richard

On 02/07/2014 02:09 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
 If there is enough interest and motivation from the community
 (including people who can actually help with the SRU), it can be
 discussed. As Jackson, I don't personally think it as a realistic
 thing to do at the moment either.

 Pasi

 On 07/02/14 22:03, Jackson Doak wrote:
 4.12 will be difficult to get to 14.04, let alone backporting it all
 the way to precise


 On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Roberto J Dohnert
 robertdohn...@gmail.com mailto:robertdohn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Aside from the trusty enablment stack, the only other compelling
 piece would be XFCE 4.12, which I cant seem to get a precise, no
 pun intended, release date.  Releasing the trusty kernel through
 updates would be optimal.  Of course, we, the Black Lab Linux
 team, are supporting 12.04 for two years past the scheduled
 Ubuntu support date until 2019.  So, we may do a 14.10 stack as
 our last major release, we may work on that for Xubuntu as well. 
 But that will be determined on where 14.04 LTS is at that time.

 Roberto J. Dohnert
 Lead Developer
 Black Lab Linux
 http://www.blacklablinux.org

 On 02/07/2014 02:30 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
 If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release
 12.04.5 as is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core
 after .4. On the other hand, if there is something we want in,
 it's another possibility to get stuff in an ISO, not just updates.

 I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support
 for 12.04, so not sure if it makes any difference to land big
 SRU's now, since people need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat
 shortly anyway.

 Cheers,
 Pasi

 On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
 FYI

 How does this align with our planning?

 Stephen Michael Kellat 
 In the basement cafeteria on lunch


 Begin forwarded message:

 *From:* Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 mailto:leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com
 *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
 *To:* ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com
 mailto:ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com,
 ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
 *Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5*

 Hi All,

 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 

YouTube Documentation Channel - 13.10, etc.

2014-02-07 Thread Jay Torian
Hello Elizabeth and others,

I've been setting up a screen-casting setup and now have what I need.

My current plan is to create some documentation videos based on the
information in: http://docs.xubuntu.org/1310/

The basic reason is some of this, and a few other topics I believe have a
high search content stickiness factor and we'll see how many folks bump
into it with cross-integrated Google searches - ie. YouTube results for
Google keyword search

If there is better or other official written materials please point me at
them.
I heard some newer materials were being worked on.

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Re: Upgrading Precise to Trusty

2014-02-07 Thread Elfy

On 07/02/14 20:52, Richard Elkins wrote:
I should also add that the upgrade testing from 12.04.3 to 
14.04.latest-at-that-time was rather pristine.  I tried both an ISO 
image upgrade and one via `update-manager -c -d`.  Very predictable 
and stable results.  So, a bit of documentation word-smithing in the 
release notes for 14.04 may be sufficient. I'd also like to see other 
Xubuntu QA and developer folks also try out these two upgrade methods 
on Precise to Trusty before April and report their testing results in 
the usual place for upgrade testing:


64-bit: 
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds/57247/testcases
32-bit: 
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds/57248/testcases


Anyone have a different perspective?

Richard



I'd not have thought so :)

Once we get to Beta 1 then I would expect to have been asking people to 
be looking at upgrades.


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QATracker wiki?

2014-02-07 Thread George DiceGeorge
I’m trying to learn how to help with Xubuntu testing,
but i’m confused - at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/QATracker
where it says
[
SUMMARY SCREEN
version.png The picture above shows a single product (ubuntu) with 9 
mandatory testcases,

]

shouldnt there be a picture where it says
[version.png]
(and supersededbuilds.png  and testcaseexpanded.png  
etc?)

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Re: QATracker wiki?

2014-02-07 Thread Elfy

On 07/02/14 21:14, George DiceGeorge wrote:

*I'm trying to learn how to help with Xubuntu testing,*
*but i'm confused - at*
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/QATracker
where it says


[


SUMMARY SCREEN

version.png The picture above shows a single product (ubuntu) with 9 
mandatory testcases,


]

*shouldnt there be a picture where it says*
*[version.png]*
*(and supersededbuilds.png  and testcaseexpanded.png *
*etc?)*
**
*George*
**
**




That would be like

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds/62644/testcases

yes there should be a picture - looks like someone has edited the wiki 
and broken it somewhere


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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
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.

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Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-07 Thread Stéphane Graber
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.


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