On 1/30/19 4:45 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >> On Jan 30, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@sys4.de> wrote: >> >> Why wait for a group of features before a release? Why not release per >> feature? > Because people want a reasonable period of support for released code. > And we can only support a small handful of releases. So increasing the > release cadence to two per year would limit the bugfix lifetime of each > release to 2 years instead of four. > > I think a compromise is that we should be free to release major features > at any six month boundary, but June/July releases would be skipped if > we had nothing major in the pipeline. That way we'd have up-to 2 releases > per year, but perhaps still have only one release per year some of the time. > Another option would be to designate certain releases as 'LTS', which would have support for a given number of years, and others have more limited support (like for only a limited time after any subsequent release). Make only 1 LTS per year, and then you have 3 years from 3 LTS releases + 1 most current release.
-- Richard Damon
