[lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu-devel End of PPC architecture

Tue Feb 7 19:31:55 UTC 2017

With the end of PowerPC architecture, will that also mean the end of bug reporting activities and fixes, or should we continue to report LTS related issues?
Thx
Jim

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>   1.  New Release Manager: Simon Quigley (Walter Lapchynski)
>   2. Re:  New Release Manager: Simon Quigley (Simon Quigley)
>   3.  Ending Lubuntu Zesty Daily PowerPC Builds (Simon Quigley)
>   4. Re:  [Lubuntu-admins] Ending Lubuntu Zesty Daily    PowerPC
>      Builds (Walter Lapchynski)
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:00:54 -0800
> From: Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
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> Subject: [lubuntu-devel] New Release Manager: Simon Quigley
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> Just letting everyone know that Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) has been extremely
> helpful over the last few cycles with release management. He has done such
> a stellar job, we've decided to give him the official position of Release
> Manager for Lubuntu. Just as Julien Lavergne (gilir) continues to be one of
> our release managers, so will I, but Simon will be at the helm of the ship,
> so he gets the fancy plaque.
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> Having released myself from that particular responsibility, I plan on
> working on developing a team to deal with our bugs better. There's a lot of
> work to do here, so if anyone wants to contribute even just a little bit,
> let me know.
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> Longer term, I hope to build a team of packagers that can help with that
> more minor aspect of development so that our developers can focus on
> actually pushing fixes upstream. Again, if you have interest here, please
> let me know.
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:06:34 -0600
> From: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at lubuntu.me>
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> Thank you Walter. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to mentor me
> in this particular area, and for your contributions to Lubuntu as Release
> Manager. I look forward to working with you in the future. :)
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:57:49 -0600
> From: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at lubuntu.me>
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> Subject: [lubuntu-devel] Ending Lubuntu Zesty Daily PowerPC Builds
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> I noticed we still had PowerPC Daily Builds enabled, and after the
> Technical Board decided[1] to remove the 32-bit powerpc architecture
> in future releases, Lubuntu will no longer be able to have a PowerPC Zesty
> release past Feature Freeze. I propose we remove the Lubuntu Zesty Daily
> PowerPC Builds effective Monday, February 13, 2017, if that's alright with
> everyone. This will ensure that we have adequate time to make sure the removal
> is clean and leaves no outstanding issues on the 16th when the architecture
> is removed.
> 
> LTS support for PowerPC systems will not go away, lasting until April of 2019,
> so if you have a system that uses the PowerPC architecture on Lubuntu 16.04 LTS,
> you can expect security updates from the Ubuntu archive until April of 2021, or
> support from *us* until April of 2019[2] (only a *three* year support period as
> opposed to five for the entire archive, if that makes sense).
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
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> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2016-December/001199.html
> [2] http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:13:40 -0800
> From: Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
> To: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at lubuntu.me>
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> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] [Lubuntu-admins] Ending Lubuntu Zesty
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> As much as I am sad to see PPC go, there's little we can do in light of the
> lack of upstream support. Thanks for taking care of this, Simon.
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at lubuntu.me> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I noticed we still had PowerPC Daily Builds enabled, and after the
>> Technical Board decided[1] to remove the 32-bit powerpc architecture
>> in future releases, Lubuntu will no longer be able to have a PowerPC Zesty
>> release past Feature Freeze. I propose we remove the Lubuntu Zesty Daily
>> PowerPC Builds effective Monday, February 13, 2017, if that's alright with
>> everyone. This will ensure that we have adequate time to make sure the
>> removal
>> is clean and leaves no outstanding issues on the 16th when the architecture
>> is removed.
>> 
>> LTS support for PowerPC systems will not go away, lasting until April of
>> 2019,
>> so if you have a system that uses the PowerPC architecture on Lubuntu
>> 16.04 LTS,
>> you can expect security updates from the Ubuntu archive until April of
>> 2021, or
>> support from *us* until April of 2019[2] (only a *three* year support
>> period as
>> opposed to five for the entire archive, if that makes sense).
>> 
>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>> 
>> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-
>> announce/2016-December/001199.html
>> [2] http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/
>> 
>> --
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