On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:18:44 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > Greg's new policy is to pick the first Linus release in each year for > > > longterm maintenance. The longterm branch for 2016 is based on Linux > > > 4.4, released at the end of week 1 (10th January). By the time stretch > > > is released, 4.4 will be quite old (the same problem squeeze and wheezy > > > had, requiring many driver backports). > > > > Would you prefer that we moved future freezes (i.e. Buster and later), > > so we could always rely on Greg's branch? Not knowing Linux's LTS planning: > > As another data point, I'd like to point out that our freeze/release > schedule also means that we miss most of the benefit from Django's LTS > release. They have an LTS release every two years and they push it out > roughly at the same time than we do with our stable release. > Can people please avoid hijacking this thread with unrelated and irrelevant discussion?
Thanks, Julien
