[2059] in athena10
Re: LTS support policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sun Apr 5 01:00:03 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:59:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Greg Price wrote:
> 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.
I'm happy with this policy. It doesn't promise anything that could be
really inconvenient in 2 years, while still providing users with what they
likely want (having a sizeable upgrade window).
-Tim Abbott
