<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">Will do Simon</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">thanx</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">Jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 8 February 2017 at 13:00, <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Lubuntu-devel mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Lubuntu-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Lubuntu-devel End of PPC architecture (jim northrop) 2. Re: Lubuntu-devel End of PPC architecture (Simon Quigley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 20:31:55 +0100 From: jim northrop <<a href="mailto:james.b.northrop@googlemail.com">james.b.northrop@googlemail.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu-devel End of PPC architecture Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:FA4A7F25-0BC8-45FE-A8EA-FE3ADDE32DB0@googlemail.com">FA4A7F25-0BC8-45FE-A8EA-FE3ADDE32DB0@googlemail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Sent from my iPad > On 7 Feb 2017, at 13:00, <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> wrote: > > Send Lubuntu-devel mailing list submissions to > <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel</a> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Lubuntu-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 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) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:00:54 -0800 > From: Walter Lapchynski <<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>> > To: lubuntu-devel <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Subject: [lubuntu-devel] New Release Manager: Simon Quigley > Message-ID: > <<a href="mailto:CAFe_ewiE7nBq%2Bh-JhtF47d3jApigXaBBzXbxyKhKF_HyyvS9pg@mail.gmail.com">CAFe_ewiE7nBq+h-JhtF47d3jApigXaBBzXbxyKhKF_HyyvS9pg@mail.gmail.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > -- > @wxl | polka.bike > C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D > 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-devel/attachments/20170206/21e1e8bb/attachment-0001.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-devel/attachments/20170206/21e1e8bb/attachment-0001.html</a>> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:06:34 -0600 > From: Simon Quigley <<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>> > To: Walter Lapchynski <<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>>, lubuntu-devel > <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] New Release Manager: Simon Quigley > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:3e114879-9245-3909-ccf4-9e491bda5de5@lubuntu.me">3e114879-9245-3909-ccf4-9e491bda5de5@lubuntu.me</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > 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. :) > > -- > Simon Quigley > <a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a> > tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC > 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 > C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:57:49 -0600 > From: Simon Quigley <<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>> > To: lubuntu-devel <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>>, lubuntu user list > <<a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net">lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net</a> > Subject: [lubuntu-devel] Ending Lubuntu Zesty Daily PowerPC Builds > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:8a3c9282-2e17-70a0-8279-b9bbcb5bc902@lubuntu.me">8a3c9282-2e17-70a0-8279-b9bbcb5bc902@lubuntu.me</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > 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] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2016-December/001199.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2016-December/001199.html</a> > [2] <a href="http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/</a> > > -- > Simon Quigley > <a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a> > tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC > 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 > C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:13:40 -0800 > From: Walter Lapchynski <<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>> > To: Simon Quigley <<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>> > Cc: lubuntu-devel <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>>, > <a href="mailto:lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net">lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net</a>, lubuntu user list > <<a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] [Lubuntu-admins] Ending Lubuntu Zesty > Daily PowerPC Builds > Message-ID: > <<a href="mailto:CAFe_ewhnK-U4j6WoeT8gGUmCyiNrM_wZX_U60EjYw%2BaB3KXRKQ@mail.gmail.com">CAFe_ewhnK-U4j6WoeT8gGUmCyiNrM_wZX_U60EjYw+aB3KXRKQ@mail.gmail.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 <<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>> 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] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-</a> >> announce/2016-December/001199.html >> [2] <a href="http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/</a> >> >> -- >> Simon Quigley >> <a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a> >> tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC >> 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 >> C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 >> >> -- >> Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins</a> >> Post to : <a href="mailto:lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net">lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net</a> >> Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins</a> >> More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a> >> > > > > -- > @wxl | polka.bike > C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D > 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-devel/attachments/20170206/51d56a36/attachment-0001.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-devel/attachments/20170206/51d56a36/attachment-0001.html</a>> > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Lubuntu-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel</a> > > > End of Lubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1 > ******************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:35:17 -0600 From: Simon Quigley <<a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a>> To: jim northrop <<a href="mailto:james.b.northrop@googlemail.com">james.b.northrop@googlemail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu-devel End of PPC architecture Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:8c4a4db5-7476-c7a3-f4c4-a1bbd9da29dd@lubuntu.me">8c4a4db5-7476-c7a3-f4c4-a1bbd9da29dd@lubuntu.me</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > 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? Please, keep reporting LTS-related issues. Thanks! -- Simon Quigley <a href="mailto:tsimonq2@lubuntu.me">tsimonq2@lubuntu.me</a> tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 ------------------------------ -- Lubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel</a> End of Lubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 ******************************************** </blockquote></div> </div>