Mythbuntu LTS plan

[Mario Limonciello]

Hi Tech Board,

I just wanted to send a friendly reminder for some comments on this.  It
was sent during UDS, so i'm sure it could have easily gotten lost in an
e-mail backlog.

Thanks!

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hi Tech Board,
>
> Kate Steward recommended that I should reach out to the tech board on
> behalf of the Mythbuntu team to help get agreement around the plan we want
> to follow for our releases going forward.  I believe we're a bit different
> than the rest of the Ubuntu based flavors in that our users demand much
> less churn with their setups as they are generally HTPCs.  We have done
> some analysis and consequently found that a majority of our user base
> gravitate toward LTS releases.
>
> We currently provide PPA's with stable builds of upstream fixes and new
> releases across an intersection of Ubuntu releases as dictated by our PPA
> page (www.mythbuntu.org/repos).  Upstream has integrated (opt in)
> statistics for usage, and LTS dominates (OS tab of
> http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html).
>
> So with all of that said, our team all agrees that it makes more sense to
> only ship ISO images of LTS releases.  We can continue to provide packages
> that work with the archive and misc transitions as the archive evolves
> during interim releases.  But not creating ISO images at the new interim
> releases, we would help cater to what our users are asking for while being
> able to reduce our effort with every cycle in fixing every problem related
> to the ISO creation.
>
> We'd still like to spin updated point releases of the LTS releases, but no
> new features would be introduced during those point releases.  That way we
> can still provide updates for the users introducing new hardware that they
> need the support from backported kernels and software stack versions.  So
> we'll still be signed up for testing those respins, it should be a lot less
> effort than all the bugs that get introduced with interim releases and need
> to be fixed constantly throughout the cycle.
>
> What does the tech board think of this proposal?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Mario Limonciello
> superm1 at gmail.com
>



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Mario Limonciello
superm1 at gmail.com
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