[1446] in athena10
Re: Dapper Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Mar 9 17:15:10 2009
Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903091555190.26041@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:14:19 -0400
> We may want to at the same time announce our intentions regarding
> how long
> we'll support the hardy LTS release.
I think the last time we discussed this, the idea was that we would
treat LTS releases the same as regular Ubuntu releases - that is, we
would declare their EOL** date to be ~18 months from their release
date. Is this still the plan?
If there is a large enough user community using Debathena on servers
(where they would want to take advantage of LTS), we may want to
consider supporting some subset of packages for LTS users, but that's
presumably a ways down the road, and I don't know that we want to
commit ourselves to that yet.
-Jon
**EOL is tentatively defined as "the date after which we cannot
guarantee support, bugfixes, or security fixes for Debathena packages,
but we might choose to continue to provide support and updates if it's
not too much effort"
