Rolling Release

[Tim]

On 28/11/14 05:46, Fran Dieguez wrote:
> On 27/11/14 16:05, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>> For those who are interested, here is how to do that ;)
>>
>> http://ubuntugnome.org/howto-run-ubuntu-gnome-as-a-rolling-release/
>
> I really like the idea but I have some questions:
>
>  - how this interacts with gnome-team ppas?
The gnome3 ppas continue as per normal.
>  - who is maintaining this "release branch"? I suppose that are core Ubuntu maintainers?
It is not a release per-se, it is just the current development series, in fact there is nothing new here, this has existed since about Raring.
Its more about making users aware of an option somewhere between running the current stable release and running gnome3-staging. Its also about
getting more testing of the development series, we currently have a lot of users running 14.10 + gnome3-staging, and not so many running VV.

There are a lot of automated tests these days to ensure that the archive stays in a consistent non-broken state and with the current GNOME-1
development cycle, most of the nasty bugs have been worked out before updates happen. The odd bug might slip through and I certainly wouldnt
apply the 'stable' tag to it (that is what the official releases are for) but it should be usable at all times.

It is important to note however that you should *never* enable devel-proposed. This is guaranteed to break your system since as part of the
automation, -proposed is where the packages with broken dependencies or failing tests live.

Ali: ^ probably worth mentioning that in your post also




>  - Will the latest GNOME version always be available in this release? I'm a huge fan of testing the latest released version in my box so if
> this release ensures it, I'll be using it.
Now that we are catching up again, it should be possible to get the majority of the GNOME stack updated to current stable GNOME release within
the first 1-2months of the cycle. It will obviously still lag behind gnome3-staging so if you want the absolute latest then you would continue
to use that.

Consider the following, while we are not quite there yet, this is the aim for the future

gnome3-staging starts tracking current in development GNOME around mid-cycle.
In the meanwhile the official stable release ships with GNOME-1, ie. vivid should have 100% GNOME 3.14.
By this stage 3.16 should be in pretty good shape and as soon as WW opens we would be able to start uploading that and potentially by alpha 1
have a full usuable 3.16 stack.



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> Regards
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