Re: RFC: Survey on release cycle

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 12.10.15 at 19:32, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> # 6 months release cycle + current stable release scheme
> 
> The same stable release scheme applies (18 months full support + 18
> months security fixes). Encourage more people to step up to share the
> maintenance burden if necessary. Automate part of the workflow to
> maintain stable releases. Write down guideline for maintainers.

-1 (with a tendency towards 0 for the base proposal, i.e. willing to give
it a try, but a tendency towards -2 for the sharing of the maintenance
burden, as I don't expect much good to come from mixed maintainership
of stable branches)

> # 6 months release cycle + LTS scheme
> 
> Pick LTS release every 4 releases. Announce LTS before hand. Non-LTS
> releases receive shorter support. Encourage more people to step up to
> share the maintenance burden if necessary. Automate part of the
> workflow to maintain stable releases and LTS releases. Write down
> guideline for maintainers.
> 
> The length of support hasn't been discussed thoroughly -- but to make
> LTS scheme stand out the length of support would be longer than what
> we have now (18 + 18).

-1 (with a tendency towards -2, foreseeing non-LTS branches to
become "bad children")

> # 9 months release cycle + current stable release scheme
> 
> Don't change anything.

+1

> # 6 months release cycle + extended security support
> 
> The number of active stable branches remains constant (I think this is
> currently 2, implying a reducing from 18 months to 12 months) but the
> security support period is extended, such that the final cut off is the
> same 36 months (18+18 in the current scheme). So this becomes 12 months of
> full support + 24 months of security support.

0 (with a tendency towards -1 when taking on my SUSE hat, as a
reduction from 18 to 12 months of ordinary support means an
increased amount of patches the various distro versions will have
to carry on top of the last stable release from the respective
branch)

Jan