LTS Requalification Application for Lubuntu 26.04

[Aaron Rainbolt]

Hello, and thanks for your time. This is an official request for
Lubuntu 26.04 to be qualified to be a long-term support (LTS) release,
as per the requirements at [1].

Going through the points listed in the references documentation:

* Ubuntu 26.04 is intended to be an LTS release. Lubuntu's request for
  26.04 to be made an LTS release therefore aligns with Ubuntu's LTS
  release cycle.
* Lubuntu has participated successfully in many consecutive LTS and
  non-LTS releases, and we have the manpower to maintain a 26.04 LTS.
  We are in need of more developers, but have an existing contributor
  we are working on training to work on development.
* Similar to previous cycles, Lubuntu intends to offer software support
  in the form of SRUs for serious bugs and security issues that the
  Lubuntu team becomes aware of and can reasonably fix after the release
  of Lubuntu 26.04. We will also be participating in the LTS point
  releases, as all other flavors do. Beyond that, we also offer
  technical support on a best-effort basis via the Lubuntu section of
  Ubuntu's Discourse instance, and through the Lubuntu Support chatroom
  on Matrix (#lubuntu-support:ubuntu.com). We also maintain an official
  manual for the Lubuntu operating system at [2].
* The above support plan is public, as it has been posted on a public
  mailing list. The ongoing support contacts at the moment are Thomas
  Ward (teward at ubuntu.com, @teward:ubuntu.com) as the primary contact,
  and myself (arraybolt3 at ubuntu.com, @arraybolt3:ubuntu.com) as the
  secondary contact. Both of us are generally highly responsive and
  easy to reach. Further contacts can be reached via our development
  Matrix room at #lubuntu-devel:ubuntu.com.
* Our key upstream packages are primarily the entire LXQt stack, the
  labwc display server, Qt, Kvantum (for theming), and the Calamares
  installer.
* We do not yet have a written confirmation from IS that space and
  resources are available to retain images in the archive through the
  LTS life cycle. Historically, this hasn't been a problem, so I do not
  expect it will be difficult for the TB or relevant teams to obtain
  this confirmation.

For the Lubuntu Council,

--
Aaron Rainbolt
Lubuntu Council Member
https://github.com/ArrayBolt3
https://launchpad.net/~arraybolt3
@arraybolt3:ubuntu.com on Matrix, arraybolt3 on Libera and OFTC

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors, section "Guidelines for
Tech Board to designate flavor image as LTS

[2] https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/
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