3 years LTS support for Lubuntu 14.04

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:59:51PM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Julien.  With this explanation, I'm +1 for recognizing Lubuntu as an
LTS release.

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