Hi all, There has been a lot of discussion and impact around the strawman proposal for changing our release cadence that I sent last Thursday. There was a misconception that the proposal was a decision that I was masking as a call for discussion. I want to reassure everyone that I really did mean it as a discussion. I feel passionately that we need to change and innovate in this area, but a change like this cannot succeed, or in fact be made, without discussion in the community and proper governance.
Discussion of this topic on the mailing list and at UDS this week was wide ranging. There were a lot of divergent opinions and ideas. The discussion seems to have resulted in roughly three different forms of proposals. 1. Move to a rolling release similar to what I proposed in the original straw man. 2. Continue to release interim releases but only support them until roughly the next interim release 6 months later. 3. Dramatically increase the rate of our releases to, say, once per month. I've attempted to capture the essence of these proposals (and associated sub-proposals) along with a structure for points and counterpoints in wiki format to support honing and organizing. They are currently stubs, so will need detailed content and continued honing, but the wiki format invites collaboration on that honing. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCadence https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCadence/RollingRelease https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCadence/SixMonthInterimRelease https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCadence/TrueMonthlyReleases I'd like to invite everyone who is interested to get their input into these pages by March 18th (or thereabouts). Then I'd like to work with interested people to select what we consider the best proposal to take to the technical board for guidance. Part of the straw man proposal was to convert 13.04 into a Rolling Release in order to allow us to go faster on the converged OS starting immediately. Given the work that is left to achieve a proper proposal for the tech board, I don't foresee such a proposal being completed in time to make such a radical change to 13.04. Cheers, Rick -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
