Monday 13 March 2023

Re: Lowlatency Kernel is behind in Ubuntu Studio

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 06:03:00PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > We pushed 6.1 out, and migrated, on generic only, to migrate lots of
> > > packages in proposed, specifically nvidia & everything entangled with
> > > it, and thus unblock autopkgtesting of all the userspace packages
> > > which were otherwise failing on v5.19. There is no intention to port
> > > all flavours to 6.1.

> > Again, this is one of the reasons we had do miss testing week among another

> it was a mistake to skip testing week. you should have tested ubuntu
> studio during the testing week like all the other flavours did. As
> there are a lot of changes in lunar, that landed and affect ubuntu
> studio. For example, all cloud images which use various cloud kernel
> flavours, based on v5.19 did participate.

> Can you explain who made the call to skip testing week? as to me, it
> seemed, it's a requirement to release a flavour. Is studio going to
> skip Lunar release?

Testing week is not a release-team-driven activity and flavor engagement in
it has no bearing on a flavor's eligibility for inclusion in a stable
release.

Flavors are required to hit a beta milestone and a release milestone. How
they conduct their activities to ensure that these milestones are releasable
is for them to decide.

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