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bonzodog
June 13th, 2006, 01:52 PM
I thought it might be wise to remind people of a few things;

Edgy Eft WILL ship in October 06 almost regardless of it's stability. It IS NOT intended to be more stable than dapper.
Dapper was 'version 1.0' of Ubuntu, and thus is the main stable point release. Eft will be 2.0 alpha, and thus will contain buggy, unstable alpha stage software in amongst the stuff that dapper brought to it.

It almost certainly won't contain XGL/Compiz, As the dev team contains people who also work on Gnome/Metacity and Debian Upstream, it means they will almost certainly favour AIGLX out of the box in Metacity. XGL/compiz will remain a Universe repo item.

One of the changes that has been specced already is the addition of the Smart Package Manager, (this is now a fully supported canonical project) though how this is going to be added is yet to be decided.
joepotter
June 13th, 2006, 02:13 PM
I thought it might be wise to remind people of a few things; ...

You wrote, " ... Dapper was 'version 1.0' of Ubuntu, and thus is the main stable point release ..."

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases?highlight=%28releases%29

I have heard that many times, and I mentioned that on another list. It was pointed out that the wiki does not say that and I was asked for proof. Do you know where the information comes from?
Paloseco
June 13th, 2006, 02:14 PM
If you ship in october there won´t be big changes, do you think all stuff that need to be done will be finished in october? I do not think so.
23meg
June 13th, 2006, 02:24 PM
If you ship in october there won´t be big changes, do you think all stuff that need to be done will be finished in october? I do not think so.
The reason behind the early release is to get back in sync with the GNOME release cycle, to compensate for the six week delay of Dapper.
bonzodog
June 13th, 2006, 03:27 PM
You wrote, " ... Dapper was 'version 1.0' of Ubuntu, and thus is the main stable point release ..."


It isn't written like that as such anywhere, it's more a better way of thinking about the release cycle; one stable LTS release every 2 years. I have been in CC meetings with Mark, and that was the way he explained it. So there is 3 unstable/progressive releases, followed by one polished stable release.

Also, as 23meg says, they need to get back in sync with Gnome.