What does LTS *actually* mean

[Rohan Garg]

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 14:04:57 Harald Sitter wrote:
> I was just wondering. What does LTS mean? In terms of supporteeness?...
> 

While I can't objectively answer the questions posed in the original email, 
here are my 2 cents on the topic of supporteeness :

* To me it seems like LTS's are marketed as releases which will continue 
getting support for the KDE Workspaces and Applications. This is absolutely 
not true since KDE upstream makes no promises of supporting these products for 
the lifetime of our LTS support ( This has changed with the recent 
announcement of freezing KDE Workspace, but since most of the effort will be 
focused on KF5, I doubt there will be alot of motivation to fix bugs in kde-
workspace 4.11)

* Since upstream does not offer any long term support, it's up to the packagers 
to backport non feature fixes from KDE Upstream to the LTS release, except that 
with the current workload this is not feasible and there is no guarantee that 
these non feature commits will even work with older versions of KDE.

* Personally, I feel that a LTS release means that Kubuntu Developers should 
try and provide KDE SC feature releases for the LTS release via the Kubuntu 
Backports PPA. This is the only way we can keep in sync with upstream's 
promise of support of Applications and Workspaces.

* I also think that we should try and test the backported packages against the 
LTS HW enablement stack [1] since upstream usually expects a reasonably up-to-
date software stack for newer KDE SC releases.

Cheers
Rohan Garg

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

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