Hi all, As you might be aware the Ubuntu desktop has decided to switch to using GNOME and this means we will be using GDM instead of LightDM [1]. Unfortunately this means there is likely to be a reduction in development effort from Canonical. However, I want to assure you that we are not abandoning LightDM: - We continue to ship LightDM in our existing Ubuntu desktop releases and we will support those for many years to come (see below). - Many Ubuntu derivatives use LightDM and we continue to support them in doing that. - Ultimately we think that LightDM is the right cross-desktop solution for display management, it's just not something we can make use of in Ubuntu desktop at this time. Who knows how the future will pan out :) I will continue to do release management for LightDM and review and merge branches as I can. If anyone else is capable and interested in helping out with these jobs I'd love to hear from you - I don't want to be a blocker on development just because my focus is elsewhere. The currently supported LightDM releases are: 1.20 - July 2017 (i.e. expiring very soon!) 1.22 - January 2018 1.10 - April 2019 1.18 - April 2021 --Robert [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004969.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/attachments/20170626/550c99a0/attachment.html>
On 26.06.2017 07:57, Robert Ancell wrote:> Hi all, > > As you might be aware the Ubuntu desktop has decided to switch to using > GNOME and this means we will be using GDM instead of LightDM [1].Just curious (haven't used gnome for aeons): does only gnome run w/ its own DM ? Why so ?> I will continue to do release management for LightDM and review and > merge branches as I can. If anyone else is capable and interested in > helping out with these jobs I'd love to hear from you - I don't want to > be a blocker on development just because my focus is elsewhere.Is there still much to develop here ? I'm running v1.10.6 here, and never missed anything. --mtx
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 05:57 +0000, Robert Ancell wrote:> I will continue to do release management for LightDM and review and merge > branches as I can. If anyone else is capable and interested in helping out > with these jobs I'd love to hear from you - I don't want to be a blocker on > development just because my focus is elsewhere.Hi Robert, thanks for all the work on LightDM these years. Do you intend to keep working on LightDM development as a side project, or is it only a work- related project which you won't have time to dedicate too (besides what said above)? Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/attachments/20170628/5b9798b2/attachment.sig>