Hi Remi

On 01/11/2016 04:16 PM, Remi Bergsma wrote:
> Maintaining LTS is harder than it seems. For example with upgrading. You can 
> only upgrade to versions that are released _after_ the specific LTS version. 
> This due to the way upgrades work. If you release 4.7.7 when we’re on say 
> 4.10, you cannot upgrade to 4.8 or 4.9. The same for 4.5: 4.5.4 cannot 
> upgrade to any 4.6, 4.7 or 4.8 because it simply didn’t exist when these 
> versions were released. (4.5.3 has been accounted for so that does work this 
> time). If you want to keep doing 4.5 releases 18 months from now, that’s 
> going to be a real issue. Users probably won’t understand and expect it to 
> work. And yes, we will change the upgrading procedures but it’s not there yet.

Out of curiosity. I thought about patch relases like this scheme 4.5.2.x
for LTS. This would work right?

Regards
René

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