Ubuntu Unity participation in LTS

[Rudra Saraswat]

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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