Support for Raring 3.8 kernel past 3.9 release

[Brad Figg]

On 04/15/2013 10:01 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 04/12/2013 08:22 AM, Brad Figg wrote:
>>
>> GregKH has already stated that he will not support 3.8 past
>> 3.9 being released.
>>
>> Should we pick up upstream stable maintenance (in some form)
>> for the 9 months of support for Raring? We _will_ provide CVE
>> support for this release.
>>
>> I propose that we don't.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>
> I guess I'm thinking maybe we should pick up 3.8 stable, at least for awhile. How long have we committed to 3.5.y ? Maybe we could
> curtail our efforts there and redirect them to 3.8.y. We are going to have a Raring LTS kernel in 12.04.3 so its clearly within our
> interest.
>
> Luis - how much additional time do you think it would take to support a 3.8 stable ?
>
> rtg

As announced here:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/9/184 we stated we will support
it "only" until March 31, 2014.

Brad
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