news 28 Posted March 25, 2013 These minutes are also available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/13/March Meeting 2013-03-18: * Meeting chair: Matt Zimmerman * Other members in attendance: Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber * Apologies: Martin Pitt, Soren Hansen, Kees Cook * Full log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.html * See also [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-March/001566.html|Stéphane Graber's more detailed summary] * Proposed changes to the release cycle * The board discussed a few recently proposed * [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-March/001527.html|changes]] * to the release cycle * Duration of maintenance/support * Currently, standard (non-LTS) releases include a commitment to 18 months of maintenance * The original proposal called for reducing the maintenance period for standard releases from 18 months to 7 months * The development team representatives discussed the possibilities and reached a consensus on a new maintenance period of 9 months, which the board then voted to approve * Effective release for new maintenance period * The board voted to implement the 9-month maintenance period beginning * with Ubuntu 13.04 * Providing a mechanism to easily track the development branch of Ubuntu continuously * Currently, users must explicitly upgrade their system to each new release * The proposal called for designating the current development focus as a "rolling release", intended to be tracked continuously rather than via discrete upgrades * The technical requirement for such a designation would be a mechanism to enable this behavior, since it is not currently supported by our current infrastructure * The board voted in support of the development of such a facility, without specifying a particular mechanism (TBD by the relevant development team(s)) * There were further components to the proposal which could not be discussed in the time available for the meeting. Discussion will continue at the next meeting on 2013-04-01 -- - mdz -- Share this post Link to post
