Ubuntu going through major changes - What's the Ubuntu Studio standpoint in all this?

[Kaj Ailomaa]

As smartboyhw pointed out, UDS(Ubuntu Developer Summit) is being  
restructured. Held now every 3 months, instead of 6, and it will be held  
online only.
- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036502.html

There's also a discussion going on about changing to rolling release,  
which might mean that 13.04 will never be released.
- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036537.html

We're currently following the discussions, and I suppose just getting our  
heads around what is going on. Nothing about the rolling release seems to  
have been decided, so it's really up for discussion.

I will be putting together something for UDS next week, and it will be  
important for us to participate in the discussions of these changes as  
they are held during that event. So, please participate in any way you  
can. I'll post details about what may be most important for Ubuntu Studio  
to keep track of as soon as I have more data.

So far, if we do get a rolling release, I come up with two thoughts on  
this:

1. We should have the power to stop package releases that present severe  
regressions. For this to work, we also need to do QA on those packages.  
This would include at least all the big multimedia packages that we have.  
Really just depends on the work needed for the QA (what can be automated  
and what not).
There has been work done on automated tests, etc, to help making QA easy  
on some of the Ubuntu Studio specific stuff. Probably, I would just begin  
by listing the most important packages, and then see how to do QA on them.

2. It would be great if we can do custom snapshots of the rolling release.  
That way we can update our live DVD whenever we want to, and have our own  
release schedule for that particular release. Probably the only packages  
involved in preparation for such a release would be the ubuntustudio  
packages, and anything that has to do with installing.

I'd like for us to be active with PR during next week. We should let our  
users know what's going on :)