Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Proposal] Release Page

[Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/01/15 01:11, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Iwas wondering if we should setup a similar page like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases. I realised that when replying to bugs that have been
> reported against an EOL release, I use the canned response from
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Release_has_reached_End_of_Life_.28EOL.29 and it points to the above link. Some considerations on why I
> am proposing this is:
>
> 1. Ubuntu GNOME LTS releases are 3 years, not 5 years as mentioned at the bottomof the page
This applies to all official flavours (except Ubuntu Kylin which maybe 5 years? and Ubuntu MATE who don't have a release yet), as such the
information could probably be included on the official Releases page.

Apart from that I don't really see a problem in linking people to the official Releases page.
> 2.EOL releases should start at13.04 as thiswas an official release.
> 3. Current list of releases should drop 10.04 to 12.04.5 LTS
> 4. Do we have an announcement mailing list? If not, the announcement list should point to the main mailing list.
> 5. Old releases can point to the Ubuntu GNOME old releases page if we have one.
>
> I'm not sure if we have a general cycle blueprint, which is essentially what things that need to always be updated before, during and after a
> cycle is complete, that we can add the above task toif accepted.
>
> THanks
> -- 
> All the best,
>
> Bruce
>
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