Kubuntu 16.04.4 Testing needed!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

In worse news, I could not get our i386 installer to run for me at
all. I had some success with amd64, and tested MATE's i386 installer
which was successful. In some ways it is simpler and more attractive
than ours.

After this next LTS we'll need to reconsider this.

Message remains -- i386 users with i386 machines -- please test NOW.

Valorie

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com> wrote:
> Why can't we just drop i386 support? If almost nobody has supported
> hardware, and the people who do aren't willing to test, why should we bend
> over backwards for a small group of people who can just use an earlier
> version anyway? The obvious choice seems clear: focus our limited resources
> on doing to most good for the most people, not straining to accommodate even
> people who aren't willing to help us help them.
>
> Nate
>
>
>
> On 02/28/2018 03:06 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>> Checking the status of our Xenial point release testing I see that 3
>> of the 6 mandatory tests for Kubuntu Desktop amd64 have been done.
>>
>> NONE of the 6 mandatory tests for Kubuntu Desktop i386 have been done.
>> It feels very bad that although the 386 users have been begging us not
>> to drop support, they - so far - are not willing to test. This is not
>> sustainable.
>>
>> I can test on my little travel laptop, but that is not a 386 machine,
>> so it *cannot* be the test we need. Based on this I will probably not
>> back offering i386 images after this next LTS. 386 users: change my
>> mind, and get these tests done.
>>
>> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/386/builds
>>
>> This is a community created and sustained project. If the community
>> wants i386 support to continue: TEST.
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Montag, 26. Februar 2018, 15:26:40 CET schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for asking. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says April 2021.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's the end of life of Ubuntu, not Kubuntu. For Ubuntu, the time
>>> period is five years, for Kubuntu only three years. This means that it's
>>> April 2019.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Volker
>>>
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