On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:57:50PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > Yes, I agree we should stick to our established policy here. > > We recently loosened our backport-voting policy a bit for non-LTS > (Regular) releases, but we didn't for LTS releases (no time to dig up > the thread, but ISTR we discussed it a bit, but didn't reach consensus > on that). I know it's tempting to loosen even more, with the ever > decreasing developer / volunteer activity, but we shouldn't do so > without proper discussion about our policy.
I honestly did not remember that a distinction was made between LTS and non-LTS for voting on backports. Thanks for the reminder. I'm wondering if "LTS" and the process around it still carries any meaning when we've effectively stopped shipping "regular" releases for over a year by now. But I'm happy to stick to the current documented way of doing things and treating 1.10 and 1.14 as "LTS". Opening up a discussion about release policy changes while releases are being prepared would cause too much distraction.
