If there is enough interest and motivation from the community (including people who can actually help with the SRU), it can be discussed. As Jackson, I don't personally think it as a realistic thing to do at the moment either.
Pasi On 07/02/14 22:03, Jackson Doak wrote: > 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 <mailto: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 >>>> <mailto:leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com>> >>>> *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST >>>> *To:* ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com >>>> <mailto:ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com>, >>>> ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >>>> <mailto: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 >>>> <mailto: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 <mailto:xubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > -- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/
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