Hi! I really don't care about LTS for an IDE. As a developer, I'm always looking for improvements and new technologies support. Of course, if someone wants to mantain an LTS its up to them, but I think the main NB community should put all its efforts on improving and releasing new features.
As Laszlo said, monthly small releases (if possible) would be great. It's exciting when a project publishes a release, and from my point of view it would also be healthy for the NB community to have frequent updates. As always, thanks a lot for the great great work everyone. On 2020/07/08 22:10:20, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Community, > > It seems we need a stronger definition of LTS, that was one of the > things that came up at the 12.0 release retrospective. > > Our current policy is to have one LTS per year. we only support the > latest LTS, Support means providing patches for critical issues. > > What ideas/requirements faced up so far: > > * 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 upgrade (Jaroslav > Tulach, Oracle) > * We shall think of not making LTS versions, let those be the pain of > external distributors (Neil C Smith) > * LTS support shall be overlapping we shall not end the support of one > LTS right after the next one came out. > * There shall be a quarterly update release, preferably about one > month after the last .x release, if we can do that (that's from me) > * Maybe something else, I've missed, please add that here... > > My thoughts: > > What I think is we shall let the hands of 11.0 LTS go, as we have not > promised that it would get supported after 12.0 is out. That was built > with the old release process. The new pipeline (thanks to Eric) is more > suitable for releasing updates. My experience with the upcoming 12.0-u1 > is pretty good so far. > I think we need to announce the end of life of 11.0 LTS as well. > > So I think we can support an LTS for 1.5-2 years with quarterly (maybe > less frequent) updates, starting form 12.0 beyond that it is probably > shall be sponsored/maintained by external distributors. (Sponsored here > would mean, that a PMC member from that distributor shall step up and > take care of the PR organization and the release process, the community > still have to vote for it, and the resulting nbm-s are served by the > Apache UC. Maintenance would mean that the whole process could happen > outside of a fork of the release branch, we won't need to create a > release and, no votes are required, but the resulting nbm-s would be > distributed on the third party distributor specific UC.) > > > What do you think? > > -- > > Laszlo Kishalmi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
