Rick Spencer <rick.spen...@canonical.com> wrote: >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.
Maintaining the current cadence should also be one of the options. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel