Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

[nick rundy]

Canonical/Ubuntu, please don't feel obligated to release Precise Pangolin in April 2012. A delayed release would strengthen stability and allow more bugs to be fixed in both Unity and GNOME 3.2.

Considering the "long-lived" nature of an LTS release, it would be preferable if Precise Pangolin was delayed a month or two (or more) than for it to be released on time with visible bugs. There are so many bugs that plague Oneiric. Many exist in GNOME 3.2. Perhaps Precise could be delayed a month or two and Ubuntu developers could fix some of the "minor" bugs plaguing GNOME 3.2? 

Although ranked as "minor," some of these bugs have existed for years and really hurt the usability of Ubuntu. For example, please see bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552093 and take a look at the screenshots posted by the bug's commentators. John Strandberg recently posted  a screenshot of Oneiric that highlights how much this bug hurts productivity. Yet the bug has existed for more than 3 years. Sadly, the same can be said for many other bugs.

I love Oneiric, but it has too many bugs. Please consider delaying release and having Ubuntu developers fix as many bugs as possible for Precise, even if it means fixing bugs that GNOME themselves should be fixing. 

I feel confident that the community will have no problem with a delay, even if it means skipping a 6 month release for once. The integrity of the LTS is worth it.

Thanks,


NIck
 		 	   		  
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