On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 7:49 AM Kalev Lember <kalevlem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/14/2018 11:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > If Fedora had longer life cycles, and more streams maintained in > > parallel, then I think the result would be that I end up doing > > rebases for everything I maintain rather than trying to backport > > anything. Admittedly this would somewhat negate the supposed benefit > > of having stable long life releases, but its either that or the > > releases bitrot accumulating more & more bugs & security flaws. > > I agree, this would lead to too much workload on the maintainers if we > just add a new long-lived branch. There's already rawhide, F29, F28, F27 > which is already quite a lot of branches to maintain. > > However, I think this could work if we change how long we maintain the > non-LTS branches. > > If we reduce the non-LTS supported time from 13 months to, let's say, 7 > months (2 months overlap to allow for time to upgrade) then perhaps it > could work? And then add a LTS branch that's supported for 3 years? We'd > have the same number of branches as now, just that one is LTS. >
That's basically the Ubuntu model. They do 9 months for regular releases, and 5 years (originally 3 years) for LTS releases. However, what could also work would be something along the lines of openSUSE Evergreen[1] model (prior to the shift to openSUSE Leap + Tumbleweed), where the community decides on a version to stabilize and maintain for bugfixes for an extended period of time. If we wanted to talk about having extended lifecycles, I think this would be a workable model. This would be similar to the original Fedora Legacy project (if anyone remembers that!). [1]: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
