Proposed 12.04.3 + 13.04 HWE Stack Policies and Procedures

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hey,

Op 20-03-13 23:28, Steve Langasek schreef:
> Hi Leann,
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:52:27PM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
>> Given the recent decision from the Tech Board to reduce the support
>> duration for non-LTS releases from 18mo to 9mo [1], I've written up what
>> I'd like to propose as the 13.04 HWE stack policies and procedures for
>> the the next 12.04.3 LTS point release.  Could I ask for a review and
>> feedback to ensure this matches what others had in mind?  I'd ideally
>> like to come to an agreement before 13.04 releases.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Proposed_12.04.3_.2B-_13.04_Hardware_Enablement_Stack_Policies_and_Procedures
>
>   For the 12.04.3 CDs, we will default to the new Raring HWE stack. Due to
>   size limitations we are unable to provide options for both the Raring HWE
>   stack and the original Precise stack. 
>
> One of the points that came out of the vUDS session was that OEMs (at least
> Dell and System76) did not expect to take up the new HWE stack in 12.04.3.
> Has this topic been explored with other Canonical partners?  If there's not
> demand for this HWE stack, does it make sense to omit the raring HWE
> backport altogether, and focusing effort on the quantal and s HWE stacks?
>
> Otherwise, this proposal looks good to me.
>
For xorg it's not as important, most packages only received minor version increments.

The big exception is mesa, which will go from the 9.0 branch to 9.1.

It would probably still require full retesting, but I don't expect much to break on xorg's side.

Has there been a discussion about naming conventions for packages yet?

I'm considering simply doing the xserver-xorg-lts-raring for the raring stack again if we're not doing a rolling release.
What's the kernel going to do?

~Maarten