Re: Proposals for releases - 4.0 and beyond

[kurt Greaves]

Option 3 seems the most reasonable and the clearest from a user
perspective. The main thing I'd be concerned about with a 6 month cycle
would be how short a branch is supported for. Most users will be bound to a
specific release for at least 2 years, and we still find bugs in 2.1 2
years since release. The only adjustment I would make would be to support
branches for 1.5 - 2 years before EOL.