On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 08:00:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 07:20:37AM +0000, Tsugikazu Shibata wrote:

> > Finally, A request to the community from LTSI's stand point is:
> > We want to have some process to be expected; How or about when 
> > LTS would be released. So that companies can easier to create their plan 
> > to use LTS and that will cause more user can use stable and secure
> > kernel.

> So the "about when" has been pretty easy to predict for quite a while
> now.  And the process has also been roughly the same for a while; IIRC
> the announcement came at the kernel summit, again with the caveat that

No, it was more usually sometime in late spring or summer (IIRC LinuxCon
Japan had some announcements).

> it might be subject to change if people abused the preannouncement.
> And even when it wasn't preannounced because of the historic abuse
> patterns, people who had observed past practices could generally
> guestimate the LTS candidate to within +/- a release.

> If that is not enough of a process, could you please state what you
> think would be more helpful?

Personally I think what we've got at the minute with the
preannouncements is fairly good, though it might help if it were a bit
more explicit when announcements would be made - the change to
preannouncements at a less awkward point in the release cycle has helped
for the users I talk to but there was always a very awkward period where
people were looking for an announcement but no information to base
things on.