Hi Jonathan (2013.03.01_16:48:21_+0200) > What bothers me more than user loss is developer loss. It's a fact > that Ubuntu as a community project is currently completely > unsustainable. ... > >If we are finding that our non-LTS releases aren't stable enough, and > >people are using the LTSs, what makes us think we can get a significant > >userbase onto a rolling release that's less polished than our existing > >releases? > > Would it be a goal to have users use the rolling releases? I can't > remember seeing that mentioned before in my catching up of the list.
Hrm, that is another good argument in favour of a rolling release. Having more users on our development release will make contributing to Ubuntu significantly easier, and take the round-trip time between submitting a patch and seeing the benefit from 6 months to 1 month / 1 day. When the development release isn't something that only Ubuntu developers run, then the barrier to new contributions goes down. > I can see a benefit in having normal users on lts releases only. It > will make packaging of 3rd party apps that go into repositories such > as 'extras' a lot easier and faster. Right, agreed. As long as 2 years isn't too old for those users. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
