Changed Stable Release Updates policy for microreleases and new features

Hello Ubuntu developers, over the years our SRU policy [1] has accumulated a fair amount of special cases and exceptions for new microreleases [2]. There was a lot of commonality between them, and maintaining that list was not practical any more. Since most of these were added, a lot of projects have moved to a CI based development model; this includes Ubuntu itself, which is now running package integration tests for both the development series and SRUs. The Technical Board has now updated the policy for generalizing the applicability of new upstream microreleases for SRUs [3]. This obsoletes the MicroReleaseExceptions sub-page. The policy was also extended to permit backporting new features to LTS releases under certain safe conditions [4]. Please note that this should still be done with common sense and care, and relatively rarely. Martin Pitt p. p. Ubuntu Technical Board [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions?action=recall&rev=59 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates?action=diff&rev1=231&rev2=232 [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates?action=diff&rev1=232&rev2=233 -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/attachments/20150929/a4248b9e/attachment.pgp>