Call for vote Re: Ubuntu Unity participation in LTS

[Sebastien Bacher]

+1 from me

Cheers,
Sébastien

Le 20/12/2023 à 17:24, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> 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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