Am 2018-05-20 um 13:53 schrieb Daniel Shahaf:
LTS release:
* full backports for at least 2 years, and at least until the next LTS
release
* security/corruption fixes for at least 4 years, and at least until the
next-but-one LTS release
Sorry, no. No one can plan with the words "at least". This isn't a
guarantee.
If we had said "for four years, or shorter if we feel like it", *that*
would have been a non-guarantee...
... but it's not what's being proposed. What's being proposed is to
promise support for the *longer* of (four years) and (until the after-
next LTS release), so in particular, it means that a 1.x LTS release
will be supported for four years from the moment it's GA'd, period.
It might be supported for more than four years, but not for less.
Seems like a guarantee to me.
I would like to insist on the proper and simple wording of such a
statement especially for non-English speaking natives.
