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How long do we support Ubuntu flavors?
@Terrance actually technically it is on releases.ubuntu.com. You also should reread my answer and note that I already answered the "3 year support" problem for Ask Ubuntu. I added some obvious emphatic statement formatting to make it easier to find what this means for Ask Ubuntu. Which should decisively end the discussion as it relates to Ask ubuntu about "Do you support only 3 years or the full 5 years?"
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How long do we support Ubuntu flavors?
@Terrance yes you can if you know where to go ;)
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How long do we support Ubuntu flavors?
@Terrance I meant like in a pastebin or something, and comments, not as its own answer. Point is that we never intended to follow the '3 year LTS' - we intended to support the full 5 years even for the flavors, which is what we've always done. My answer goes in depth to explain the difference and what it means, THEN what we will be doing with Ask Ubuntu and how we'll handle it differently than a given flavor team ;)
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How should we handle new and future questions about Ubuntu Touch?
@ArturMeinild Note that this specifically applies to the UBPorts project - for Ubuntu Touch. Raspberry Pi installations of Ubuntu (not Raspbian, etc.) are still valid and such, because those are special cases. Same with virtualized/containers running on ARM archs, those are not "Ubuntu Touch" or "UBPorts"
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How should we handle new and future questions about Ubuntu Touch?
@ArturMeinild Per the wiki, Ubuntu Touch is the UBPorts project, and is third party. It's based on Ubuntu, but to my knowledge they ahve not taken the steps to become an official flavor. Therefore, it's still offtopic because it's not yet an 'official flavor' and we would treat it like any of the dozen Ubuntu derivatives. It's listed in the Derivatives list (unofficial derivatives) actually - wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives - so the original guidance of "this is eol / offtopic" is still valid
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How long do we support Ubuntu flavors?
@Terrance I think you're going to have to share that information. Regardless, the output of things for security status will show that things're still covered, and we've always followed the entire 5 year LTS release cycle, even with flavors only getting 3 years of 'desktop app' support from that distribution. You're also a little late to the conversation, this has been posted for over a month now...
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UbuntuOnAir: "Ask AskUbuntu"
@terdon it'll be Zanna, but not me. Timezone reasons (read below)
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UbuntuOnAir: "Ask AskUbuntu"
@RandomPerson nope, I don't remember the date. It was fairly recently though, these things are being created at the speed of last-minute so i mean ;P
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UbuntuOnAir: "Ask AskUbuntu"
Time zone math is hard for most, isn't it? EDT is UTC-4: 8AM. EST is UTC-5: 7AM.
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UbuntuOnAir: "Ask AskUbuntu"
12:00PM UTC is 8AM UTC. This is usually when I'm either mid-commute to work or still waking up, and in this case, on that day I have a 9AM UTC call so I will still be doing pre-work stuff that prohibits me from being present in the call. If it were a few hours later I'd have been able to attend, but alas 12UTC puts it at 8AM (EDT) for me (or 7AM if US is not in Daylight Savings Time) which means it's a timezone issue that prevents me attending.
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UbuntuOnAir: "Ask AskUbuntu"
Ubuntu On-Air is managed independently from Ask Ubuntu typically. They've "invited" Ask Ubuntu to join, but the individuals who have been invited (fyi: I have insight being on the Community Council) aren't going to be aware of the original "Ask Ubuntu" formation typically, unless there's new people I'm not aware of on the invite list...) I think "AskUbuntu" is a typo, I'll let Monica know
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Let's try to explain complex topics to new users in a simple manner
@RandomPerson Just to clarify but what do you mean by "a simplified technical language"? That's not going to be easy for some of the technical topic,s and the terminology can't easily be simplified.
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