i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

[Bryan Quigley]

Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for
this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the
discussion.

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bryan Quigley
<bryan.quigley at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start
> conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the
> 18.04 timeframe.  Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea
> of the impact.
>
> The general ideas are:
> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from
> the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*.
> B.  Just drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10.
> C.  Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386
> in 18.10 timeframe.
>
> Thoughts?
> Bryan
>
> * You could consider any packages that are 100% specific to the Unity flavor.
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/039420.html
>
> [2] These results are Unity specific (about 80 of the 300 responses).
> How long do you expect this machine to last?
> at least 1 year - 16
> at least 3 years - 31
> at least 5 years - 20
> over 7 years -12
>
> What would be the effect if support ended... (1 is no impact, 5 is
> significant impact)
> April 2019
> 1 - 21
> 2 - 9
> 3 - 12
> 4 - 12
> 5 - 19
>
> April 2021  (16.04 LTS would cover these)
> 1 - 31
> 2 - 12
> 3 - 15
> 4 - 7
> 5 - 7
>
> April 2023
> 1 - 47
> 2 - 5
> 3 - 12
> 4 - 3
> 5 - 4