Hello Neil, I'd like to understand what my colleagues requirements on LTS are as well! There seems to be some inherent mismatch when we talk about it, so I am not really sure. But let's try:
#1 - we need support for JDK8 - everytime we upgrade I have to prove that JDK8 is still supported and treated seriously. There is a fear that Apache NetBeans community drops support for JDK8 and we'll be stuck with some ancient version of NetBeans Platform. #2 - LTS releases: GraalVM also uses x.0, x.1, x.2, x.3 versioning scheme however the LTS version is x.3 - my colleagues find it hard to understand that NetBeans LTS is 12.0 which is just a bugfix version on top of 11.3. #3 - LTS should last long. At least for three years like Ubuntu. It seems to me that there is a fear of upgrading. Ideally my colleagues would like to get just bugfixes without essential upgrades #4 - growing platform - VisualVM guys and IGV guys complained that 11.3 & 12.0 platform is too big - that it now contains Batik & FlatL&F - in general people don't want the platform to grow. That's what I remember right now. Once we switch to 12.0 (autumn?), we'll need bugfixes that would become 12.0.1, 12.0.2, etc. I believe we (me or some of my colleagues) can act as release co-ordinators, if that helps. -jt po 22. 6. 2020 v 12:26 odesílatel Neil C Smith <[email protected]> napsal: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 11:10, Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > do we plan to provide patches to 12.0 version? E.g. 12.0.x versions with > > only selected bugfixes? What's the process of getting a fix in? For > example > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2210 is something I'd like to > see > > included. > > Assuming we do what we've done previously, second PR on top of > release120 branch after that's gone in to master. May or may not > require changes - eg. different spec version for modules. > > We also did a full source zip release for 11.2-u1, which I presume is > what you would need here? > > > OracleLabs is planning to update to 12.0 LTS, but the team would like to > > understand how support for the LTS is going to work and for how long the > > fixes are going to be produced? > > We originally agreed until 13.0, so 12 months, for critical fixes. But ... > > See the recent thread Laszlo initiated - maybe we still need to > clarify some things around release processes and what an LTS means? > Given I included LTS in the original release schedule proposal, with > some concerns about the need, our capacity, and our lack of a clear > definition of what it means, I'd be interested in what OracleLabs > requirements of an LTS are? > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
