3 years LTS support for Lubuntu 14.04

[Julien Lavergne]

Hi Steve,


2014-03-05 7:21 GMT+01:00 Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>:

> Hi Julien,
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:38AM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>
> > I would like to propose Lubuntu 14.04 for a 3 years LTS support. I
> prepared
> > a wiki page for this purpose :
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/14.04/LTS-Proposal
>
> > Let me know if you have any questions on it.
>
> You mention on this page that the LXDE components are already in
> maintenance
> mode, with a major migration in the future.  Do you expect upstream to
> provide security support for the current versions over the next three
> years?
> Do you expect the Lubuntu team to do the work to provide updates for any
> security issues that arise?
>

Thanks for the review.

I'm confident that upstream will provide security updates if it's
necessary. There is at least 2 experimented developers who have a good
knowledge of the actual LXDE code base (GTK+ one). We also have a good
relationship with upstream, they are quite active recently, and LXDE is not
a young project (they exist since 2009). However, no one from upstream is
sponsored by any companies, so I can't guarantee that the support will be
perfect during the 3 years. For any emergency, the Lubuntu team may act as
a backup, but I sincerely don't think it will be necessary.

For the Lubuntu team, we currently have only 1 active people with upload
rights (me). Like upstream, I can't guarantee 100 % support during 3 years
(who know what can happen in 3 years), but I'm willing to do my best during
this period (I would have not propose LTS support if I wasn't prepare to
deal with this 3 years period :-)) Also, 1 upstream developer contribute to
Debian, packaging some LXDE parts, so if really an emergency appears (I
don't hope this, that mean I have a serious problem), he may be able to
deal with all the packaging stuff, and he will only need review and
sponsorship.

Let me know if you need more information.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne
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