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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releasesUbuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releasesPosted Apr 22, 2008 19:49 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releases by ArbitraryConstant Parent article: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releases I'm not a Ubuntu user, but why would the LTS status be a problem for fixing the regressions? Would not a longer support time cause more bugs to be fixed? After all, package maintainers would be more motivated to fix something that needs to be maintained for years, rather than something that becomes obsolete within months.
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and desktop releases Posted Apr 22, 2008 20:00 UTC (Tue) by ArbitraryConstant (subscriber, #42725) [Link] The problem is that in an LTS release, you really don't want to be making significant changes in behavior mid-release. For some of these bugs (eg, the pulseaudio issues and kernel scheduler issues I linked to above), people are going to have to work around them because they're pretty much broken by default. Coming along post-release with a fix has a good chance of breaking the workarounds, which is bad because entire point of doing snapshotted releases (particularly LTS releases) instead of continuous upgrades like Gentoo is to keep intra-release updates safe. Fixing these problems after the official release will be anything but safe. You are correct that there's a greater incentive to keep the LTS versions maintained over their (lengthy) term of support, but this is why it's imperative to get things right at the time of release. Failing to do so results in broken behavior that has to be preserved.
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