[Mageia-dev] libmtp 1.1.3 or greater for kio-mtp (on Mageia 2)

Tue Jan 22 18:15:08 CET 2013

On 22/01/13 16:18, Robert Wood wrote:
+...
+> As an aside, I find it contradictory that we don't have an LTS so have
+> to completely reinstall every eighteen months, yet we are often quite
+> behind on latest releases/bleeding edge stuff like this.
+> 
+> Thanks. :~)
+
+Releases are every 9 months and upgrades are supported.
+
+We're currently approaching release number 3. At what stage did other
+distributions get an LTS, out of interest?
+
+I'd like to see an LTS too but at the moment I don't think we have the
+resources to properly maintain one. I'd personally prefer we wait until
+we can properly support one than agree to one which could be detrimental
+to Mageia as a whole.
+
+Let me explain what I mean. Speaking from a QA perspective, despite our
+best efforts there are still only a very small handful of people (think
+2 or 3) whose job it is to test every single update you receive on each
+architecture (currently i586 & x86_64). So each update is tested at
+least twice at the moment, assuming we don't find any problems and have
+to retest. Arm support is also anticipated in the future.
+
+When Mageia 3 is arrives we will be supporting 2 live releases again
+(mga2 & mga3) which instantly doubles the amount of work we have in QA.
+
+On top of this we also have ISO testing, pre-release testing of the ISOs
+before they are sent to the mirrors. ISO testing takes away one week of
+every 4, roughly, in the build up to the final release. We're expecting
+backports to open at some stage aswell.
+
+Inevitably, we struggle with the sheer volume of work. When backports do
+open it will add to that workload.
+
+Were we to also have an LTS with current manpower levels each release
+would suffer.
+
+How can you help you ask? Easy! Get involved and help us testing updates :)
+
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team
+
+Thanks
+Claire (MrsB)
+
+