On 2018-10-26 10:26:09 -0300 (-0300), Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: [...] > Using the LTS term in a slightly different way than the "industry > standard" now means we need to spend a little more effort on users > education. [...]
Just a data point: under pressure from downstream consumers the OpenStack project implemented longer-but-reduced support for each of its major coordinated releases. In an effort to avoid the confusion seen here over "LTS" they opted to refer to it as "Extended Maintenance" instead. Like Debian's LTS, the idea is that all major releases switch to EM once they reach what would originally have been their EOL date, and EM is continued on them for as long as the downstream stakeholders interested in those releases are willing to put in the effort to review critical fixes and keep those particular branches tested (which in many cases may also mean investing in and getting involved with assisting the OpenStack community's equivalent of the DSA to keep the necessary test infrastructure to support those older releases maintained and viable). -- Jeremy Stanley
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