KDE neon LTS value

[Eike Hein]

It's ... sort of dumb, but sometimes the value of advertising an LTS
branch is psychological. "Does this have an LTS branch for when I need
it, e.g. because I get more busy" seems to be on the minds of many
people making a distro choice these days, even if they don't use it
immediately or not for long. To those kinds of people the Neon offering
might appear incomplete without the option.


Cheers,
Eike

On 08/03/2017 09:15 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> At neon headquarters we're pondering the value of our LTS edition.  We
> currently recompile all our packages again for a user-lts edition
> which uses Plasma 5.8 LTS.  It also uses Qt 5.7 because Plasma 5.8
> doesn't compile with Qt 5.9.  All the other KDE packages are the
> latest release.
> 
> It gets little testing and little feedback.
> 
> Does Plasma team have an opinion on whether it's useful to continue
> this?  The alternative is to accept that the Neon model isn't very
> suitable for LTS and other projects like Kubuntu or openSUSE handle it
> better.
> 
> Jonathan
>