Ubuntu's Engineering Director Debunks Rolling Release Rumours

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.'"

Comments

If you catch yourself saying "FLOSS ecosystem"

[Rogerborg]

Please take it as a sign that you need to spend more time with your compiler and less with the Director of Buzzword Bingo.

Rick Spencer says no rolling releases?

[Samantha Wright]

Man, there goes a good Astley moment.

Re:Faked Story?

[shish]

So is this just another completley fabricated story to get page hits?

From what I can see, Mark is basically saying "backports might be something worth looking into"; then the media, being the media, blow it out of all proportion into "Mark Shuttleworth declares that every Ubuntu package will be bleeding edge tomorrow".

I wonder what it's like for the poor guy, any time he mentions anything, in any context, people take it to the extreme then claim that that is what Ubuntu will do next...