On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:24:23PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:00:12AM -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > > 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? > > For the record, this has the Foundations Team's support as well (we've > already discussed the resourcing considerations). So unless someone knows > of a reason why we *shouldn't* go ahead with this, I think the main question > here is whether the flavors want to participate.
Speaking with my Edubuntu flavor lead hat on, we'd be happy to participate. -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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