12.10 upgrade path - Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, March 01, 2013 06:16:18 AM Martin Pitt wrote:
> Scott Kitterman [2013-02-28 18:24 -0500]:
> > Perhaps it would make sense to extend 12.10 support by 6 months to give
> > 12.10 users a decent interval to upgrade.
> 
> +1 on that from me as well, unless it turns out in discussions that we
> are doing 13.04 after all, and only drop 13.10.

No would be a good time to be discussing this change for after 14.04.  Doing 
this mid LTS - LTS cycle is going to be problematic for a variety of reasons.  
I we had a year to get ready, then we might be in a reasonable place to decide 
on making a transition like this.

I think this is a substantially more complex (in terms of understanding all 
the implications, making sure they are thought through, and including things 
in the "plan" - not necessarily just in code) than the "No more source 
packages" spec or the archive reorganization spec.  How long have those taken?

Scott K