[Ubuntugnome-qa] Download page (or release notes) and 14.04.2 HWE

[Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've just been thinking ...............

A lot of Ubuntu Precise users were incredibly dismayed to find out that 
if they installed Precise with 12.04.2, 12.04.3, or 12.04.4 images they 
ended up in HWE EOL sooner than if they'd installed using the archived 
12.04.1 images. There was no mention of HWE or HWE EOL on the Ubuntu 
downloads page at that time.

Now lets forget about Ubuntu and Precise and move onto Ubuntu GNOME and 
14.04.2. The general Ubuntu documentation regarding LTS HWE should suffice:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2BAC8-Support.A14.04.x_Ubuntu_Kernel_Support

Take note that Ubuntu GNOME Trusty installed with either the 14.04 or 
14.04.1 images will be supported throughout April 2017, and do NOT 
require an HWE upgrade, whereas Ubuntu GNOME Trusty installed with 
either the 14.04.2, 14.04.3 or 14.04.4 images will only be supported 
until August 2016 at which point they'd require an HWE upgrade to the 
16.04 kernel and Xstack.

Confused yet? No page exists for Trusty HWE EOL yet but the procedure 
will likely be similar to that for Precise:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL

So I'm slightly tempted to say our download page should make a brief 
mention of that - something to the effect of:

Users not requiring the latest hardware support may wish to use the 
archived 14.04.1 installation media in order to avoid HWE EOL in August 
2016. (with embedded links to HWE info and the archived images)

BUT (caps because it's a huge but) both 14.04 and 14.04.1 had a horrific 
installer bug that resulted in dual/multi-booters losing their Windows 
installations and data:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1265192

Thankfully that is fixed in 14.04.2.

So my personal thoughts = I think I'd rather deal with people being 
slightly upset over reaching HWE EOL 8 months earlier than Ubuntu GNOME 
Trusty itself reaches EOL than recommend anyone use the soon to be 
archived 14.04.1 media because of that nasty installer bug.

What does everyone else think?

Lance