Call for confirmation of LTSness of flavours for bionic

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> So, before we go baking in the support headers in the final release of
> bionic, we should double-check with all the flavour leads what their
> support commitment plans are for 18.04.  Currently, what we have live
> in production is:
>
> 5 Year LTS:
>   - Ubuntu Base / Cloud / Desktop / Server
> 3 Year LTS:
>   - Kubuntu
>   - Lubuntu
>   - Ubuntu Budgie
>   - Ubuntu MATE
>   - UbuntuKylin
>   - Xubuntu
> Not LTS:
>   - UbuntuStudio
>   - Lubuntu Next
>
> It is highly recommended that flavours that choose to be LTS remain
> with a 3 years cycle, as that gives you an overlap to get users to
> the next LTS without committing to, frankly, a much longer support
> length than you think five years is until you've done it. ;)
>
> If we could get people to sound off with an "I represent $flavour, and
> I confirm that we intend to support 18.04 for 3 years" (or, obviously,
> let us know instead if you don't intend to do so, so we can adjust),
> that would be lovely.
>
> ... Adam

Kubuntu is in for 3 years. Thanks for asking!

Valorie, release manager

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