On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 18:33, Qingtian Wang <qingt...@evergreenelite.com> wrote: > LTS releases have little meaning (again for me)
With big emphasis on "again for you"! ;-) Laszlo hit the nail on the head with the comment about LTS and NetCAT going hand in hand. For perspective, I wrote the initial draft release schedule (which has changed a bit since) to meet a few requirements that were coming out from discussions among the community here - 1. A general consensus that we wanted a faster release schedule - probably quarterly - certainly quicker than that might be more difficult for users and release managers! 2. A significant number of people (eg. corporate / education) who voiced concerns on needing to update too often. 3. A general consensus that NetCAT was an incredibly valuable part of NetBeans that we wanted to keep going at Apache. 4. A recognition that running NetCAT for every quarterly release is impractical and will lead to volunteer burnout. The release schedule was written to try and meet all those concerns - I didn't make much up, I just picked the various things people had said and tried to combine as much as possible into something coherent. If we can only do NetCAT once a year, then an LTS makes some sense too as a reason, and addresses #2. And having 9 months of the year focused on new features and 3 months on ensuring they're perfect seems a good balance to me personally. The release schedule is not set in stone. It's already been tweaked in various ways. And it can and should adapt again. It's all a big, ever changing balancing act! :-) Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
