I'm pleased that we got there.   I'll update the wiki accordingly


Kind regards,

Paul Angus

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Moser [mailto:m...@renemoser.net] 
Sent: 27 November 2017 18:05
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: CloudStack LTS EOL date?

Hi Paul

On 11/27/2017 06:27 PM, Paul Angus wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> note: I'm only stating what the original intent was when LTS was originally 
> proposed.  I'm not trying to dictate what we must do now or in the future.
> 
> ... The LTS scheme was designed when there was a release coming out every one 
> or two months, and these releases were effectively only receiving fixes for a 
> month or two.
> 
> To answer your questions (taking into account the note above)- 4.9 was an LTS 
> version, which meant that there would be a 4.9.1, 4.9.2......4.9.6... for a 
> period of 2 years.
> 4.9.x was the latest 'version' at the beginning of 2017.
> Unfortunately, it was also the latest version in the middle of 2017. So in 
> mid-2017 we took the latest version (4.9 again) and said that we would 
> continue backporting fix for that version for 2 years from mid 2017.

This is absolutely fine, we are on the same page.

> Some variant of your proposal "6 months after next LTS release (minimum 18 
> months)." would also work.
> I think something like "supported for a minimum of 6 months after next LTS 
> release or a total period of 24 months, whichever is greater" suits what you 
> are saying?

That would definitely make things more clear to users.

Regards
René

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