Fwd: [RFC] 12.04.5

Roberto J Dohnert robertdohnert at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 21:39:26 UTC 2014


I dont think at this point it is realistic as well considering we havent 
gotten a release date and no one has heard a word from the XFCE team 
about it.

Roberto J. Dohnert
Lead Developer
Black Lab Linux
http://www.blacklablinux.org

On 02/07/2014 03:09 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> If there is enough interest and motivation from the community 
> (including people who can actually help with the SRU), it can be 
> discussed. As Jackson, I don't personally think it as a realistic 
> thing to do at the moment either.
>
> Pasi
>
> On 07/02/14 22:03, Jackson Doak wrote:
>> 4.12 will be difficult to get to 14.04, let alone backporting it all 
>> the way to precise
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Roberto J Dohnert 
>> <robertdohnert at gmail.com <mailto:robertdohnert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Aside from the trusty enablment stack, the only other compelling
>>     piece would be XFCE 4.12, which I cant seem to get a precise, no
>>     pun intended, release date.  Releasing the trusty kernel through
>>     updates would be optimal.  Of course, we, the Black Lab Linux
>>     team, are supporting 12.04 for two years past the scheduled
>>     Ubuntu support date until 2019.  So, we may do a 14.10 stack as
>>     our last major release, we may work on that for Xubuntu as well. 
>>     But that will be determined on where 14.04 LTS is at that time.
>>
>>     Roberto J. Dohnert
>>     Lead Developer
>>     Black Lab Linux
>>     http://www.blacklablinux.org
>>
>>     On 02/07/2014 02:30 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>>>     If we don't need to update the ISO really, we can just release
>>>     12.04.5 as is, with the updates that have landed to Ubuntu core
>>>     after .4. On the other hand, if there is something we want in,
>>>     it's another possibility to get stuff in an ISO, not just updates.
>>>
>>>     I would note that there is only 1 year left of Xubuntu support
>>>     for 12.04, so not sure if it makes any difference to land big
>>>     SRU's now, since people need to upgrade to 14.04 somewhat
>>>     shortly anyway.
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Pasi
>>>
>>>     On 07/02/14 20:12, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>>>>     FYI
>>>>
>>>>     How does this align with our planning?
>>>>
>>>>     Stephen Michael Kellat
>>>>     In the basement cafeteria on lunch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>>     *From:* Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
>>>>>     <mailto:leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>>
>>>>>     *Date:* February 7, 2014, 11:00:12 AM EST
>>>>>     *To:* ubuntu-release at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>>>     <mailto:ubuntu-release at lists.ubuntu.com>,
>>>>>     ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>>>     <mailto:ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>>>     *Subject:* *[RFC] 12.04.5*
>>>>>
>>>>>     Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>     With 12.04.4 having just released, I wanted to propose the
>>>>>     idea of having a 12.04.5 point release for Precise.
>>>>>
>>>>>     As many are aware, recent 12.04.x point releases have shipped
>>>>>     with a newer kernel and X stack by default for hardware
>>>>>     enablement purposes.  Maintainers of these enablement stacks
>>>>>     have agreed to support these until a Trusty based enablement
>>>>>     stack is supported in Precise.  Once a Trusty enablement stack
>>>>>     is supported, all previous enablement stacks would EOL and be
>>>>>     asked to migrate to the final Trusty based enablement stack
>>>>>     which would continue to be supported for the remaining life of
>>>>>     Precise.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Currently, 12.04.4 is our final point release for Precise.
>>>>>      12.04.4 shipped with a Saucy enablement stack by default.
>>>>>      This Saucy enablement stack in Precise will eventually EOL in
>>>>>     favor of the Trusty enablement stack.  Once that happens, our
>>>>>     final point release for Precise will be delivering an EOL'd
>>>>>     enablement stack.  This seems unfortunate and inappropriate.
>>>>>      I would like to propose having a 5th point release for
>>>>>     Precise which would deliver the Trusty enablement stack for
>>>>>     Precise.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Providing a 12.04.5 point release will add no additional
>>>>>     maintenance burden upon teams supporting enablement stacks in
>>>>>     Precise.  It would require some extra effort on part of the
>>>>>     Canonical Foundations Team as well as the Ubuntu Release Team
>>>>>     to spin up an additional set of images and testing
>>>>>     coordination etc.  However, I informally discussed this with a
>>>>>     few members of each of those teams and the tentative agreement
>>>>>     was that 12.04.5 was a reasonable request which could be
>>>>>     accommodated.  Collectively we could find no compelling reason
>>>>>     to not provide 12.04.5.  We also discussed that a 12.04.5
>>>>>     release should be optional for the Flavors to participate in.
>>>>>      Additionally, we would want to purposely avoid clashing the
>>>>>     14.04.1 and 12.04.5 release dates and would suggest releasing
>>>>>     14.04.1 first and 12.04.5 after (exact date TBD).
>>>>>
>>>>>     What are other's thoughts here?  Does anyone have a compelling
>>>>>     reason for not providing a 12.04.5 point release?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>     Leann
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