On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:20:45AM -0700, Mario Limonciello wrote: > So with all of that said, our team all agrees that it makes more sense to > only ship ISO images of LTS releases. We can continue to provide packages > that work with the archive and misc transitions as the archive evolves > during interim releases. But not creating ISO images at the new interim > releases, we would help cater to what our users are asking for while being > able to reduce our effort with every cycle in fixing every problem related > to the ISO creation. > > We'd still like to spin updated point releases of the LTS releases, but no > new features would be introduced during those point releases. That way we > can still provide updates for the users introducing new hardware that they > need the support from backported kernels and software stack versions. So > we'll still be signed up for testing those respins, it should be a lot less > effort than all the bugs that get introduced with interim releases and need > to be fixed constantly throughout the cycle. > > What does the tech board think of this proposal?
(Speaking for myself alone) I have some qualms, mainly around whether you're going to be able to get good testing in the development release of things like Mythbuntu-specific installer changes if you stop testing the non-LTS images; but overall your rationale seems sound enough and I don't see why you shouldn't try this out. Do you intend to keep building dailies? I think you might suffer some bitrot otherwise. Do you think we could review how this has gone after T? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
