On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 16:20 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> > Is LTS really something we need to provide? Seems to me like this is
> > something the linux vendors take care of for the most part. Of course
> > this leaves windows, OSX (and maybe some others).
> 
> Well, I don't see it as loooooooooooooooooooooooooong term support, but

Using LTS as a term confused me on that one :P

> rather as way to enable quick feature cycles, so that feature releases
> can move faster than anybody can upgrade to them (ok, that's a bit too
> fast the, but hope you get the point), while new features can get in
> production sooner, where wanted.
> 
> We could also use the names "feature preview release" and "stable
> release"(=lts) ... which would bring us close to MySQL's model and their
> confusing version numbering (MySQL 5.1 is the stable there, then MySQL
> 5.4 was announced as preview, now MySQL 5.5 is the current preview
> release, neither 5.4 nor 5.5 are "stable", "GA", though)

I still don't think this is a good idea though. That would me we have 
(as example) 5.2 in LTS, 5.6 as stable and 5.7 in trunk? How much do you 
(at that point) like supporting a 4/5 year old version? Do you hvae that 
much spare time?

I think our current way work pretty well. There is 5.2 which is 
security-fix supported, 5.3 that is supported and trunk/5.4 that's on 
the way to alpha. 

Derick

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