Feisty+1 will *NOT* be a LTS release

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:56 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
>>> I heard Feisty+1 would be LTS, I'm looking forward to participate 
>>> full-time in this release.
>> I may be the one that started that rumor.  I'm not sure where I got it 
>> from but I thought Ubuntu was going to release a LTS every 18 months, 
>> but I have been corrected.
>>
>> Let me stop this rumor before it gets out of hand:
>>
>> Feisty+1 will *NOT* be a LTS release.
> 
> Hold on. Is this really true? I know that it has not been decided that
> it will be an LTS, but has it been explicitly decided that it _won't_ be
> an LTS? 

    If Dapper is an LTS, with a three-year support window, wouldn't it
make sense to get releases up to that point two years or so from now? Is
there anything to be gained by having multiple, not just overlapping LTS
releases?

    The changes in Feisty et all are kinda ground-breaking; re-thinking
the AT*T Unix boot process into something suave and sophisticated
like...what's it called, upstart? That's rather core, and replaces
something with three decades of maturity; I wouldn't throw it away any
time soon.  At least until Upstart is well-trampled with lots of users.

    There's also something to be said about the 3D environment; there's
got to be a way you can choose

     [2D] || ( [3D Nvidia] || [3D ATI] || [3D other]).

    Coding isn't the only issue, since propriety plays a part. An LTS
would seem to exhibit the plug-and-play simplicity by nature.

    Is there a hurry?


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