The existing official policy was to maintain LTS releases for 2 years. 19.11 and 20.11 LTS releases were maintained for 3 years and there was not significant issues caused by code divergence from main etc.
Update the policy to indicate 3 years maintenance for LTS releases, but note that it depends on community support. Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com> --- v2: fix typo in commit message --- doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst index 8156b72b20..289769a61d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst @@ -54,5 +54,6 @@ LTS Release A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. The current policy is that each -year's November (X.11) release will be maintained as an LTS for 2 years. +year's November (X.11) release will be maintained as an LTS for 3 years, +however that is dependent on continued community support for validation. After the X.11 release, an LTS branch will be created for it at -- 2.43.0
