LTS status for Ubuntu flavours

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Kaj,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:50:55AM +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > On 24 February 2014 10:27, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:
> > > Ubuntu Studio is also participating in all point releases for 12.04 LTS.

> > > We will discuss LTS support for 14.04. Most probably we will follow the
> > > Ubuntu 5 year plan.

> > > / Kaj Ailomaa - Ubuntu Studio project lead

> > Given the overlap between Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, does it make
> > sense to have the two on different support lengths? Xubuntu committing
> > to 3 years earlier in the thread, and 5 year commitment here. Are you
> > going to pick up the remaining 2 years of XFCE specific support
> > required? Or would it be better to align both flavors on the same
> > support length, e.g. either 3 or 5.

> While Ubuntu Studio uses the XFCE DE, our main focus is multimedia
> content production and the meta packages are applicable to all DEs.
> As far as the ISO is concerned, we will of course put our attention to
> any bugs that may arise. And that is as far as we will support XFCE
> specific packages.

I think the point that Dimitri is making is that it makes no sense to say
that UbuntuStudio will have 5 years of (community security) support, if it
depends on a desktop environment that won't have security support for that
same time period.  While you could decide to provide 5-year support for only
the multimedia packages, I don't think we on the TB would be happy to sign
off on saying UbuntuStudio as a flavor has 5-year support when the DE on the
UbuntuStudio images only has 3 years of support.

So I think the UbuntuStudio and Xubuntu communities should discuss this and
reach an agreement on which support period to use for these shared
components, and set their LTS support accordingly.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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