KDE neon LTS value

[Sebastian Kügler]

On donderdag 3 augustus 2017 14:15:45 CEST 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.

It does help us testing changes in LTS, because I assume most developers don't 
run LTS on their daily work machines...
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sebas

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