>> I wanted to react about the fact that Lubuntu 12.04 will not be a LTS >> version. I think it is a really bad news. Is there really no chance >> that Lubuntu 12.04 be a LTS version ? Is the work too hard to maintain >> a version during 3 years ? >Well, we don't really have the choice. Currently, I can't guarantee than >we will have people to maintain Lubuntu during 3 years. 3 years, it's >long, and we have barely enough devs to maintain current releases. > >Previous LTS releases were Ubuntu and Kubuntu, because they had enought >devs on Ubuntu side (Ubuntu Desktop team and Kubuntu Team) and enough on >upstream team (GNOME and KDE). There are also companies support which >make easier the long term support. > >However, as 12.04 will be a LTS for Ubuntu, we will do our best to >maintain as much as we can this release, as long as we can, but I can't >ensure the 3 years support. > >I hope I answer your question. > >Regards, >Julien Lavergne
Thanks for your answer. I understand very well that it might be a very hard work to maintain an OS, especially for a small team. I would to thank you and all Lubuntu's team for the work which has been made on the distro, and good luck for the next. Kind regards, Pierre Gobin
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