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Ubuntu's Engineering Director Debunks Rolling Release Rumours

Posted by timothy on from the really-wrong dept.

Responding to yesterday's post indicating that Ubuntu might move to a rolling release schedule, reader ddfall writes "This is wrong! Engineering Director of Ubuntu Rick Spencer says 'Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release.' He goes on to say, 'We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu. This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.'"

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  1. That's a relief by onionman · · Score: 4, Informative

    I personally like the idea of scheduled releases which have been somewhat reasonably tested. Giving developers a mechanism to deal with the cutting edge versions of each package is nice, but I'd rather not have those in the releases on my servers.

    1. Re:That's a relief by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Informative

      Many people like the LTS releases for this reason.

      Unlike the half-baked release of 10.10, where it was obvious that there was still a lot of critical stuff unfinished?

      I don't know what "critical stuff" you mean. I downloaded it on release day and it worked. There were a lot of big updates in the following week, so maybe it was stuff that broke other configurations.

  2. Re:Mark Shuttleworth about Cadence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    He wasn't saying the world should revolve around Ubuntu, but rather that everyone should work together. A little different, don't you think? If everyone agreed to work in cadence to a different cycle than ubuntu's, I think he would have still called it a success.