Please all favors indicate if LTS and support length

[Stéphane Graber]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:26:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:27:28PM +0100, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > The request for MATE to be a 3 years LTS reminded us that we need to
> > know what flavors will be LTS and how long they intend to support it.
> 
> > The usual supports lengths are:
> >  - Not LTS (9 months)
> >  - Short LTS (3 years)
> >  - Normal LTS (5 years)
> 
> > Please all flavor leads reply to this e-mail, picking one of those 3
> > options. Someone on the TB will then review and confirm the request.
> 
> > This needs to happen very soon as we will need to update Launchpad to
> > set the right support length on the various packages, which means that
> > you can't produce final images until this is sorted.
> 
> I'm not sure there's actually any reason that this needs to be fixed before
> the final images are produced?  As long as the archive itself isn't frozen
> and the metadata is updated there, we should be ok I think.
> 
> Not that we don't want flavors to get their answers in ASAP, but I'd rather
> the release team didn't worry about respinning for something that shouldn't
> matter to the CD images.

Well, we've got all the data anyway, but the point was that we wanted
the packages Supported field to be correct on the images.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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