Unacceptable HWE kernel behavior change in livecd-rootfs

[Erich Eickmeyer]

I do apologize for adding the CC, it was for awareness only, no
escalation.

CC has been removed from this reply.

On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 10:26 -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I do not understand why the Community Council was copied on this.
> Based on context from the Ubuntu Flavors Matrix room, this was the
> result of a mistake in operations, not an intentional change. Even if
> it had been an intentional change though it would not have been a
> code-of-conduct violation, and given that it was a mistake it's
> *definitely* not a code-of-conduct violation. Escalating things to
> the
> CC this quickly is not helpful, and we don't have a desire to surveil
> conversations that we have no reason to be involved in as of yet, so
> copying us on things like this makes very little sense (especially
> when there's a public list that is copied on this that we can look
> through if a CoC violation does occur and we need context).
> 
> To those who reply here, please remove
> community-council at lists.ubuntu.com from the reply list.
> 
> --
> Aaron Rainbolt
> Ubuntu Community Council Member
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> 
> (P.S.: Apologies for not having this GPG-signed, I don't have my
> email
> client set up right currently and am using GMail's web interface.)
> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM Erich Eickmeyer
> <eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Apparently flavors no longer get the HWE kernel because somebody
> > decided it was The Right Thing To Do (tm) and to make the HWE
> > kernel
> > opt-in for all flavors. We are supposed to have Feature Parity with
> > Ubuntu Desktop, which somehow gets the HWE kernel in 24.04.2.
> > 
> > Somebody did not communicate this change to the flavors and now
> > there's
> > a fix for livecd-rootfs awaiting SRU to fix this, but apparently
> > it's
> > too late because nobody wants to delay *a point release* by a few
> > days.
> > 
> > It's just a point release, but it's a big deal as Edubuntu, in
> > particular, is supposed to have *feature parity* with Ubuntu
> > Desktop,
> > especially in this regard. Many of our users don't have fast
> > internet
> > connections, have metered internet connections, and a huge kernel
> > download is a big deal for them.
> > 
> > This needs to be fixed ASAP. I am furious about this. Delay the .2
> > release.
> > 
> > --
> > Erich Eickmeyer
> > Ubuntu MOTU
> > Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
> > Technical Lead - Edubuntu
> > 
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