Den fre 27 feb. 2026 kl 18:42 skrev Michael Osipov <[email protected]>:
> On 2026/02/16 16:27:00 Evgeny Kotkov via dev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > During the recent discussion about releasing Subversion 1.15, several
> issues
> > with our current LTS/regular release policy [1] were highlighted [2].
> >
> > Building on Brane's suggestion, Nathan and I have drafted a definition
> for an
> > updated release policy to resolve the issues. Namely, it should:
> >
> > - Encourage packagers to pick up new releases, instead of postponing
> adoption
> > until the next LTS release.
> > - Address the problem that we might not have enough resources for a
> steady
> > rate of non-empty regular releases every 6 months.
> > - Allow us to not have to decide whether 1.15 should be a regular or an
> LTS
> > release, given that both of them have downsides after a long break in
> our
> > release cycle.
> > - Return us to a proven model that worked well in the past.
> >
> > The policy is defined as follows:
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Starting with 1.15, all release lines are supported for at least 3
> years.
> > At least one release line is always supported.
> >
> > A release line becomes EOL when the following conditions are met
> > simultaneously:
> > - It has been supported for at least 3 years.
> > - There is a new minor release line with an age of at least 3 months.
> >
> > Among the supported release lines:
> > - The latest release line ("N") receives full support.
> > - Other release lines (N-1, N-2, …) receive security-only support and
> > critical bugfixes, e.g., related to data corruption.
>
> As the FreeBSD port maintainer I'd like to rephrase it from my PoV: We
> have currently two ports:
> devel/subversion
> devel/subversion-lts
> while devel/subversion being the default.
>
> From my understanding from 1.15 this will not be required anymore and
> there will be more or less one permanent LTS release and I should fold both
> into devel/subversion?
>
> Michael
>
Hi Michael,
Your understanding is correct. We may of course end up supporting more than
one release at the same time (let's say 1.16 is released one year after
1.15, then both will be supported for two years).
Without me fully understanding the FreeBSD port system it does seem like a
good idea to merge them - the -lts designation won't make any sense.
Cheers,
Daniel
