Dropping the PowerPC ISO to save time and efforts
I know this might sound a bad suggestion/idea and some may not feel comfortable with this at all but if you just think about it, and as per the Head of Lubuntu Developers himself, the build of PowerPC is very problematic at the moment and the real Q is: DO WE HAVE enough time and resources to maintain the ISO of PowerPC? at least, if we could drop it for this release and have it back with 14.10?
YES, I know 14.04 is our first LTS Release and having an LTS Release for PCC is great news for the users but it is a burden for the Developers Team and the Testing Team.
Any how, I am not a developer and I do not test a PPC ISO but I am thinking to save every moment and effort for the coming 6 months :)
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- Complete
- Approver:
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- Priority:
- High
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- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Lubuntu Developers
- Definition:
- Discussion
- Series goal:
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Implemented
- Milestone target:
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- Started by
- Julien Lavergne
- Completed by
- Julien Lavergne
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[joern-schoenyan] Dropping just for 14.04 means, that PPC users don't have any options for the time between EoL Saucy and the release of 14.10, besides using a pre-Alpha release. In my opinion, there are 3 ways:
* dropping PPC at all
* 14.04 as the last release
* don't drop
Anything else would be inconsistent.
[amjjawad] it is indeed a hard decision but IMHO, a decision about this must be made :)
[Noskcaj] Maybe if we can get 14.04 in a high enough quality, we could drop the 6 monthly PPC releases.
[larsnooden] Unless there is a change inthe market, the PPC hardware will eventually go away. We should definitely do a 14.04 LTS for it, but then after that see if that is enough. The time to consider dropping it would be *after* the LTS. +1 to noskcaj's and joern's comments. We have testers and users for PPC.
[larsnooden] Let me ammend that. The old Macintosh PPC hardware will go away through attrition. However, IBM is investing $1 billion into Linux on its Power architecture.
[gilir] let's keep PPC at least for this LTS, let's discuss this after the LTS. It's not so bad currently.
