Roadmap for 14.04

[Aere Greenway]

On 11/19/2013 03:08 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>
> 2013/11/18 Iberê Fernandes <ibere.fernandes at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ibere.fernandes at gmail.com>>
>
>
>     Regarding:
>     > Since the next release is a "all-you-can-fix" roadmap,
>     maintaining it will
>     > be IMO a waste of time. If you want to work on something
>     specific, talk to
>     > me by mail or IRC (gilir on #lubuntu).
>
>     I agree it'll be a waste of time if we may be moving to LXQt on
>     14.10 cycle.
>
>     Hence, does 14.04 has to remain LTS yet? I mean, should we drop the
>     LTS idea for 14.04 once:
>     - LXDE is dying;
>     - we're missing devs and LTS would demand support together with the
>     non-LTS releases.
>     - LXQt seems to be not  ready for 14.04
>
>
> I'm not sure it will be quite ready for 14.10 either (we have to 
> change all the GTK applications to Qt version, it's quite a lot of 
> work to test the integration of all of them). But with a 14.04 LTS, we 
> can release a "not-so-stable-and-finished" 14.10 Qt version, because 
> we still can advise people to keep 14.04. The goal also, is to focus 
> on maintaining the LTS version, and development the Qt version until 
> it's stable enough to completely switch to it. That should make the 
> maintenance possible (1 version to maintain, 1 to develop).
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>
>
Julien:

This approach makes good sense to me.  I agree, for what it's worth.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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