My request to ubuntu developer team

[Liam Proven]

On 16 November 2011 14:45, R S V Reddy <ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you are happy with the LTS, then stay with it, by all means.
>>
>> But when 12.04 comes out, you will have quite a big adjustment to make.
>>
>> Me, I upgraded to 10.10 after a few days and liked Unity quite a lot.
>>
>> I upgraded that to 11.04, again after a few days, and it's fine. Some
>> things are better, some are worse. It's much like life. ;¬)
>
> That's cool, but at least the developers should have a stable version

Um. The developers' version is the furthest thing from stable. It is
the one that changes all the time.

>  --- it
> should be intact under any case that's why it is called stable? Isn't it?

I think I see what you are getting at.

The stable release of the distro is one with a little more testing,
but mostly, it's just supported for far longer. So it is the one that
stays the same while the ordinary semiannual releases advance.

It is not quite the same meaning as the "stable" release in Debian,
for instance. Which is why Ubuntu's is not called "stable", it's
called "long term support."

> If
> we even change the stability... then it should be no more called LTS, they
> (***developers***) can play with normal versions but LTS should remain
> intact, that is, however, my suggestion.

Change is inevitable. You have to accept me. Me, I am glad that every
6mth I get new toys to play with, more polish, more integration and so
on. I like it. I only run LTS on servers.

But my customers and clients, they get LTS, as it working and staying
working is more important than new shiny.


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