Meeting 2013-03-18:

 * Meeting chair: Matt Zimmerman
 * Other members in attendance: Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber
 * Apologies: Martin Pitt, Soren Hansen, Kees Cook
 * Full log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.html
 * See also [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-March/001566.html|Stéphane Graber's more detailed summary]]
 * Proposed changes to the release cycle
  * The board discussed a few recently proposed [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2013-March/001527.html|changes]] to the release cycle
  * Duration of maintenance/support
   * Currently, standard (non-LTS) releases include a commitment to 18 months of maintenance
   * The original proposal called for reducing the maintenance period for standard releases from 18 months to 7 months
   * The development team representatives discussed the possibilities and reached a consensus on a new maintenance period of 9 months, which the board then voted to approve
  * Effective release for new maintenance period
   * The board voted to implement the 9-month maintenance period beginning with Ubuntu 13.04
  * Providing a mechanism to easily track the development branch of Ubuntu continuously
   * Currently, users must explicitly upgrade their system to each new release
   * The proposal called for designating the current development focus as a "rolling release", intended to be tracked continuously rather than via discrete upgrades
   * The technical requirement for such a designation would be a mechanism to enable this behavior, since it is not currently supported by our current infrastructure
   * The board voted in support of the development of such a facility, without specifying a particular mechanism (TBD by the relevant development team(s))
  * There were further components to the proposal which could not be discussed in the time available for the meeting. Discussion will continue at the next meeting on 2013-04-01