2011/10/22 Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de>:
>> > There is also a lot to be said for going with what is known to be stable 
>> > for
>> > an LTS release.
>> Please do not begin with this discussion again. It is confusing for
>> the readers and totally unrelated. There is no LTS in the release
>> process RFC but every release has a fixed lifetime.
> This discussion is about Ubuntu LTS. So 5.4 might be a valid choice for
> them.

If we can get a 5.4 they're reasonably comfortable with out in time,
I'd argue very strongly for its inclusion. We've already got 5.4 in
beta. I don't think it's crazy to think we'd have a 5.4.0 in plenty of
time to let them do plenty of testing.

We're talking about locking a major vendor into a major version for
-five- years, not Ubuntu's usual three. 5.4 will give them a head
start versus what would otherwise be starting already out of date - by
the time Ubuntu 12.04 is officially released, they'd be behind with
5.3. My understanding of LTS is not that it's a total freeze, but that
they support it for bug fix updates and such. So we could expect 5.4.x
releases to get in (or be backported/cherry-picked) if they had
important fixes, as long as we don't have another is_a() snafu.

-- Gwynne

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