[2052] in athena10
Re: LTS support policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sat Apr 4 20:42:11 2009
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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:41:42 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
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I should be less aggressively snippy with my reply editing. I meant to
also say that I'm fine with this policy as you propose.
- Evan
Greg Price wrote:
> Sounds basically good. I think this can be reformulated a little.
> Say,
>
> We will support an LTS release until 6 months after the next LTS.
> At our discretion we may support it longer if we see people are
> still using it.
>
> The differences are
>
> - promising concretely the 6-month margin may make people more
> comfortable in advance, and costs us little if we would have
> supported it 5 months anyway while they kept using it;
>
> - I'd rather not promise we'll definitely go farther for one or a
> handful of users;
>
> - the part about limited notice sounds scary, and won't be necessary
> if we set a policy we like to begin with.
>
> I think the 6-month margin is what Canonical uses for ordinary
> releases? If not we could adjust it to match the same terms.
>
> Greg
>
