Call for vote Re: Ubuntu Unity participation in LTS

[Steve Langasek]

Hello,

Based on the answers from the flavor leads in this thread, I am satisfied
that Ubuntu Unity meets the criteria for an LTS community flavor for 24.04
and recommend that the Technical Board approve their plan for a 3-year LTS. 
I am calling for a vote by email from the TB on this.

I vote:

+1 approve Ubuntu Unity as a 3-year LTS for 24.04

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 05:49:59PM +0530, Rudra Saraswat wrote:
> Hey vorlon,
> 
> Thank you for your response.
> 
> > Flavor's support plan presented to Tech Board and approved; support plan
> > should indicate period of time if beyond 18 months (3 yrs or 5 yr), key
> > contacts, and setting expectations as to level of support.
> 
> As with our previous non-LTS releases, we expect to support the LTS for 3
> years, not 5. Maik is in fact on IRC ("Maik" on Libera).
> 
> We plan to continue maintaining the Unity package set, releasing fixes for
> bugs and security issues, as well as any issues that might prop up in other
> related packages in general use by Ubuntu Unity users.
> 
> > Since Canonical is no longer the upstream for Unity, do you
> > yourself the upstream now for the unity packages?  I see
> > debian/control for the unity source package still points
> > https://launchpad.net/unity, but this is owned by ~unity-team
> > has only ubuntu-core-dev and Canonical employees as members.
> > latest unity package has an upstream version number
> > '7.7.0+23.04.20230222.2' but there is no corresponding .orig.tar.xz
> > as part of the source, this is a native package; the debian/watch
> > file also points back at https://launchpad.net/unity, which has 7.4.0
> > as its latest release tarball.  So it is entirely unclear to me what
> > the version number in this package is meant to indicate.
> 
> Most of our development revolves around the main 'unity' package,
> which is in active development, while the other packages are, like you
> mentioned, in maintenance mode. (unless there are significant changes
> necessitated by changes in the main Unity codebase)
> 
> We haven't added any releases to the Unity Launchpad project, as it
> simply serves as a host for the Launchpad Unity Git repository and
> meets our needs. mitya57, a core-dev and member of our team and
> package uploader, helps up keep
> https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity (where we maintain the
> Unity codebase) and the Launchpad repo in sync, which is used as an
> upstream for all the distributions that offer Unity, and the Launchpad
> repo is just used to build the Unity packages, nothing more.
> 
> > Written confirmation from IS that space and resources are available to
> > retain images in archive through LTS life cycle.
> 
> Ubuntu Unity does just so happen to be one of the lighter flavors out
> there (crazy, I know ;)), so I hope that helps (since we just have a
> single artifact).
> 
> Sorry for the late response btw. It was only a few minutes ago that I
> realized you had already replied (I just received jbicha's email), as
> I haven't received either of your two replies for some reason.
> 
> ==
> 
> Kind regards,
> Rudra
> https://ubuntuunity.orghttps://blendos.co
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 7:21 PM Rudra Saraswat <rs2009 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Speaking on behalf of Ubuntu Unity, we would like to take part in the
> > upcoming 24.04 LTS.
> >
> > Here are the Ubuntu wiki pages for both points of contact:
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rs2009
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Maik
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Rudra
> >
> > https://ubuntuunity.org
> > https://blendos.co
> >

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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