Hi, On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Bálint Réczey wrote: > > So my current answer to the question about Wheezy or Jessie LTS is: "I have > > no > > idea, but given Squeeze's LTS success, I think it's very likely we'll have > > Wheezy + Jessie LTS. Please support Squeeze LTS and/or express your > > appreciation / usage to make it happen." > I think skipping Wheezy and providing Jessie LTS would give users > almost the same support coverage but with less effort. How about > deciding on Jessie LTS first and if there is still demand for Wheezy > LTS considering it later? > Is there any clear indication of what our (potential) LTS users > (funders) prefer?
I don't really see what this brings us. Supporting every release for 5 years while releasing a new stable every 2 years means that the security team handles each release 3 years and the LTS team handles each release for 2 years. In other words, as soon a we drop squeeze support, we have time to support wheezy, and when wheezy's support ends, we have time to support Jessie. Also when I contacted sponsors I always explained that I don't want a big lump of money only once, I want a sustainable/recurring funding that they can renew year after year. I have no clear data from sponsors between wheezy/jessie but what is sure though is that for many squeeze LTS was announced too late and some potential sponsors did not help because they did not care about squeeze. Invariably we will find people interested in keeping their currenst stable deployements for longer... but once they upgraded, it's too late. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
