> On Aug 12, 2022, at 5:12 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As an idea, I understand this, it would basically be an "LTS" OpenWrt
>> release that
>> would receive security-only updates.
>> However, we had a long discussion on the IRC today and the resources are
>> spread
>> rather thin even currently with 2 or 3 releases being supported.
>> If its gonna be a volunteer kind of no guarantees release, then maybe
>> but I dont see
>> how we can manage that as well.
>
> That is fair, if we are spread too thin, and clearly we are, then yes, I
> agree we should focus on the latest releases and people who cannot update for
> whatever reason, be it now unsupported hardware, or high availability or
> whatever should find out a solution. It's open source after all :)
I've been lurking in this discussion, but thought I would throw in this
perspective:
Who is asking for this? Could we ask them to quantify the benefit (to them) of
a six-year LTS?
Would they be willing to fund the effort required? (Some companies decide that
Red Hat or Ubuntu are critical to their business, and hire people/assign
developers to work to support those distributions...)
Thanks for listening.
Rich
(Sorry for any duplicates - original message was in Rich Text...)
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