"Support Plan" request challenge (WAS: Ubuntu Studio LTS Re-Qualification)

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey Erich,

I'm a relatively new member of the TB and not familiar with how flavors 
were granted LTS status in the past but let me share my perspective on 
what you wrote.

Le 24/11/2023 à 07:02, Erich Eickmeyer a écrit :
>
> That said, this seems way too detailed for a repeated LTS. I will 
> certainly follow this for Edubuntu since it's returning after 10 
> years, but for Ubuntu Studio, and any other flavor with a prior LTS in 
> the past two years, this should be a much lower bar.
>
Checking 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2016-April/002213.html 
what I see in this example is 7 bullet points and less than 20 lines of 
text (wrapped at 80chars), that doesn't seem a long or unachievable task 
to me. Could you be a specifics on what exactly is making the bar too 
high in your opinion?
To me it feels like it would have taken you less time to write those 
details than those emails...

> That said, I'm not standing-down from this challenge, but revising it: 
> I challenge the Technical Board to revisit and more clearly define 
> exactly what "Flavor's support plan presented to Tech Board and 
> approved; support planshould indicate period of time if beyond 18 
> months (3yrs or 5yr), keycontacts, and setting expectations as to 
> level of support." means with specifics, as the wording is too vague. 
> Furthermore, the policy wording is clearly outdated ("18 months"), has 
> been around too long without revision (2011) and the policy itself 
> should probably be reworked in collaboration with the Flavor Leads as 
> is the spirit of Ubuntu.
>
The page could be probably be a bit more specific on what is asked 
indeed. I think it's a fair ask for the TB to review the current wording 
and policy and see if we believe changes are needed. We do review 
mailing list activity and open questions during our IRC meetings so we 
should be able to pick it up next time

Cheers,
Sébastien Bacher
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