I'm not going to say it's "good news," but just "news." In fact, personally I am not very happy to have to mention this virus that is taking so many lives ahead, but it is more than likely that many of you have doubts as to whether Ubuntu LTS 20.04 will suffer some delay due to the Coronavirus and it seems that we already have an official answer by Canonical. If there are no future changes, they will meet the deadlines.
Much of the work that developers do is or can be done from home. And that's what Canonical is going to do: they have managed everything and, during the quarantine, they will work remotely. Plus, they can stay that way indefinitely, so no project at the company led by Mark Shuttleworth should be affected by Coronavirus, whatever the duration of the security measures.
All Ubuntu team work happens remotely
With remote colleagues by default, and a flexible office work policy, Canonical was well placed for the adjustments needed globally to slow the spread of COVID-19. We have given our teams space and time to ensure that vulnerable people close to them are as protected as possible and so that they can make the necessary childcare arrangements.
We have moved teams that previously worked in offices (finance, design, inside sales and device enablement) to remote work, and we have assigned mentors to those groups for the transition.
If you enter the link to the article by Mark Shuttleworth, you can see that at no time does it mention the release of Ubuntu 20.04, but that is irrelevant. What really matters is that they can do all their work without leaving home, so by extension, Focal Fossa will continue its development normally and it will arrive when planned.
Therefore, and if they do not publish another statement, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa will come April 23th 2020.
And if the new version of Ubuntu is delivered a week, 15 days later or 1 month later, it is not the end of anyone's world, and there are priorities in life and health and taking care of a pandemic is one of them and taking care of life faced with something like that, much more ... and an operating system is not.
You have to put things in perspective
And in the face of his anger, I am living in Argentina with a total and mandatory quarantine and isolation and being locked up in his case for 15 days in principle, it is not pleasant or fun
And now they can get mad
In the Hos. Posadas there are 33 suspected cases and they are sending them under the rug as with the N1H1. After La Plata they are not believed or comment on what they are wearing
Nothing surprises me from the national and popular Kirchner government. I still want to know how many deaths were in the floods of La Plata when the crazy madwoman and the one-armed man from Lepanto ruled, today the ambassador to Brazil was governor