Comment 6 for bug 1567061

FWIW I don't consider it an obvious win to go with drupal8 in 16.04 rather than leaving drupal7 in, broken, and SRUing the php7 compatibility fixes post-release. Drupal8 being a major new upstream version, there is probably integration testing that would need doing anyway (drupal7 has no autopkgtests), and an unknown amount of packaging changes. To me, it seems that drupal8 for 16.04 implies more work now and more work later.

I accept Martin's judgement that drupal8 is ok for FFe, but as a sponsor I don't believe I can commit to having enough time to following through on this given relative priorities.