On 06/21/2012 02:00 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On 06/21/2012 02:34 PM, Robbie Williamson wrote: >> So we've clearly heard the opinion of Kubuntu...are there any other >> derivatives who wish to contribute to this discussion. I for one, would >> be interested in knowing/hearing how these suggested changes impact them. >> >> -Robbie > > Starting with just a bit of nitpicking but it's something we agreed at > UDS that we'd try to get fixed in everyone's mind :) > We're "flavours" not "derivatives", "flavours" are fully integrated in > the Ubuntu project and have been recognized as such by the various > governance boards. I usually consider "derivatives" as referring to our > downstreams like mint where they're indeed a derived product. Fair enough, but then this wiki page probably needs changing to reflect this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives
> > Now, speaking for Edubuntu, we don't feel like we could increase our > testing frequency as we'll be increasing the number of platforms that > we'll be supporting this cycle, don't have a lot of testers and > generally don't feel the need for it. > > In the past we were only supporting a desktop installation on i386 and > amd64. This cycle we're extending the desktop support to i386, amd64 and > armhf. > On top of that, we'll be introducing Edubuntu Server this cycle, that'll > still be installed from our single media but will add a good dozen of > extra services to test. > > > The upstreams Edubuntu is working with are perfectly aware of our > milestones and freeze periods and make sure their releases land on time > so we have to ask for very little freeze exceptions or last minute > upload (I don't think we asked for much more than 2 FFe last cycle). > > Changing the way we work after we agreed on the release schedule for > this release would confuse our contributors and upstreams with no clear > benefit for us. > > > There are plenty of really good changes to the archive that are planned > for this cycle as part of the archive reorg and increasing the use of > -proposed, still with my Edubuntu release team hat on I don't think > piling up changes is a good idea. > I'd rather we do what we agreed on at UDS, try to encourage additional > daily testing (because that never hurts, doesn't cost any development > time and is beneficial) and discuss the next steps at the next UDS when > we have concrete feedback on how these changes went. Thanks for the feedback Stephane. I think you've make some valid and reasonable points that we should consider. -- Robbie Williamson <rob...@ubuntu.com> robbiew[irc.freenode.net] "Don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." -Bruce Banner -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel