On 13-02-28 11:32 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:29:45 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>> On 13-02-28 11:23 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 28, 2013 05:09:26 PM Martin Pitt wrote:
>>>>>  * Take a monthly snapshot of the development release, which we support
>>>>>
>>>>> only until the next snapshot
>>>>
>>>> This is the main point where I have doubts and questions:
>>>>  * What does "support" mean for the monthly snapshots? Hopefully not
>>>>  
>>>>    security updates, SRUs, and backports? That would ruin pretty much
>>>>    all the savings that we do from dropping the interim releases.
>>>
>>> I think it's critical too.  Currently there is no security support in the
>>> development series.  I have a hard time envisioning something with no
>>> support from the Ubuntu security team as a release of any kind.  It's
>>> certainly not something I could recommend who isn't involved in Ubuntu
>>> development run on a system they care about.
>>
>> The security team does support the development release. When we push
>> updates for the stable release, our policy is to either sync, merge or
>> fix the packages in the dev release also.
>>
>> We will also be pushing urgent security updates to monthly snapshot users.
> 
> Will they start getting USN coverage?

I don't know how the monthly snapshots will be handled yet. For now, I
just want users of monthly snapshots to get urgent security fixes that
can't wait a month for the next snapshot to roll over.

Marc.



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