What does LTS *actually* mean

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:41:58PM +0100, Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Harald Sitter wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > What does support mean at all in respect to a Kubuntu release?  We
> >> > don't spend time fixing bugs in old releases generally.  But if a fix
> >> > is available and is requrested by a friendly user we should do the
> >> > update.
> >>
> >> How would a user request a fix though? Usually that is a bug report,
> >> but we have a policy to move upstream reports upstream unless they are
> >> of considerable importance to us. So really there is no forum for the
> >> user to request a fix backport.
> >
> > We should evaluate any bugs to check if they are of considerable
> > importance to us before moving upstream.  In reality someone is more
> > likely to ping on the mailing list or irc.
> 
> What is an important bug then?

It's subjective but generally one guideline is one which if not fixed is important enough to be release noted.

Jonathan