4.12 will be difficult to get to 14.04, let alone backporting it all the way to precise
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Roberto J Dohnert <robertdohn...@gmail.com>wrote: > Aside from the trusty enablment stack, the only other compelling piece > would be XFCE 4.12, which I cant seem to get a precise, no pun intended, > release date. Releasing the trusty kernel through updates would be > optimal. Of course, we, the Black Lab Linux team, are supporting 12.04 for > two years past the scheduled Ubuntu support date until 2019. So, we may do > a 14.10 stack as our last major release, we may work on that for Xubuntu as > well. But that will be determined on where 14.04 LTS is at that time. > > Roberto J. Dohnert > Lead Developer > Black Lab Linux > http://www.blacklablinux.org > > On 02/07/2014 02:30 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: > > If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release 12.04.5 as > is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core after .4. On the other > hand, if there is something we want in, it's another possibility to get > stuff in an ISO, not just updates. > > I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support for 12.04, > so not sure if it makes any difference to land big SRU's now, since people > need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat shortly anyway. > > Cheers, > Pasi > > On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote: > > FYI > > How does this align with our planning? > > Stephen Michael Kellat > In the basement cafeteria on lunch > > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com> > *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST > *To:* ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > *Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5* > > Hi All, > > With 12.04.4 having just released, I wanted to propose the idea of > having a 12.04.5 point release for Precise. > > As many are aware, recent 12.04.x point releases have shipped with a > newer kernel and X stack by default for hardware enablement purposes. > Maintainers of these enablement stacks have agreed to support these until > a Trusty based enablement stack is supported in Precise. Once a Trusty > enablement stack is supported, all previous enablement stacks would EOL and > be asked to migrate to the final Trusty based enablement stack which would > continue to be supported for the remaining life of Precise. > > Currently, 12.04.4 is our final point release for Precise. 12.04.4 > shipped with a Saucy enablement stack by default. This Saucy enablement > stack in Precise will eventually EOL in favor of the Trusty enablement > stack. Once that happens, our final point release for Precise will be > delivering an EOL'd enablement stack. This seems unfortunate and > inappropriate. I would like to propose having a 5th point release for > Precise which would deliver the Trusty enablement stack for Precise. > > Providing a 12.04.5 point release will add no additional maintenance > burden upon teams supporting enablement stacks in Precise. It would > require some extra effort on part of the Canonical Foundations Team as well > as the Ubuntu Release Team to spin up an additional set of images and > testing coordination etc. However, I informally discussed this with a few > members of each of those teams and the tentative agreement was that 12.04.5 > was a reasonable request which could be accommodated. Collectively we > could find no compelling reason to not provide 12.04.5. We also discussed > that a 12.04.5 release should be optional for the Flavors to participate > in. Additionally, we would want to purposely avoid clashing the 14.04.1 > and 12.04.5 release dates and would suggest releasing 14.04.1 first and > 12.04.5 after (exact date TBD). > > What are other's thoughts here? Does anyone have a compelling reason > for not providing a 12.04.5 point release? > > Thanks, > Leann > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > > > > > > -- > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ > Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ > Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/ > > > > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > xubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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