KCI builds once b-series (18.04 LTS) development starts

[Aaron Honeycutt]

Sounds like some great saving of resources on our end. Xenial is stuck any way on Plasma 5.8 I believe, and Zesty has only so much time like you said. LTS should get the most love and outshine our last in every way!

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On Oct 12 2017, at 1:44 pm, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Amen to all that. The upcoming LTS should be our best yet, and will
> take a lot of attention, love, testing, polishing. Anything that
> doesn't further that should be moved out of the way in my opinion.
>
> +1
>
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Rik Mills <rikmills at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> > Once the b-series (18.04 development start we would have 4 active series
> > building on KCI. Xenial, Zesty, Artful and 'b-series'.
> >
> > Since we already arguably generate too many builds at present, then I
> > propose that we retire builds for both Xenial and Zesty.
> >
> > Rational for those:
> >
> > Xenial - There is little that we are likely to backport to Xenial any
> > more with the help of KCI, and what individual packages we might can be
> > test built on a case by case basis. We already have some breakages with
> > Xenial builds due to difficult to backport dependencies, which is only
> > going to get worse with time. It would be a better use of time and
> > resources to concentrate on the upcoming next LTS.
> >
> > Zesty - Similar to Xenial, there is little now that we would with to
> > backport for Zesty. We cannot/should not backport 18.04 versions in the
> > backports ppa, as this would break Zesty -> Artful upgrades via the
> > release upgrader when a user had the backports ppa packages installed.
> > Zesty also only has 3 months worth of life once Artful is released, so
> > it will be going away soon anyway.
> >
> > Thoughts/opinions please?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rik Mills
>
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