Daniel Shahaf wrote on 2018-06-25: > Julian Foad wrote: >> [...] then the support period of one or more of the older release lines >> will simply expire before we get around to it [...] > > Suppose a security issue is found that affects "1.9 and all later > versions", don't we (implicitly) promise that the fix therefor would be > announced for all supported release lines simultaneously? [...]
That's pretty important, yes. Forget about overlap periods, for a moment. Then there will be usually 3 supported lines (after a standard release) and sometimes 2 (after an LTS release). Previously we have had 2 supported release lines at all times. Are we comfortable with that increase, and an implicit promise to backport security fixes to all of them at once? - Julian
