On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:57:24 +0000 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:

> On 03/03/14 10:10, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 01:50, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote:
> >> Thanks for the stable branch maintenance.
> >>
> >> Question. Until when are you going to support 1.8 stable release?
> >
> > A really good question. :) I asked this myself several times now
> > without having an good answer.
> >
> > It boils down to how much time I have left for it. I'm doing the
> > release stuff alone right now and with 1.10 starting to form as well
> > as 1.9 needs attention 1.8 will most likely be less important for me.
> >
> > I was hoping to do 1 or 2 more releases and maybe have 1.9.x in such a
> > shape that people are willing to upgrade. Hard to say if that is
> > realistic or not. We will have a 1.8 release this week. The next
> > depends on how much things get backported not only to 1.9 but also
> > 1.8.
> >
> > Maybe I don't even have to decide myself because no new commits show
> > up in the 1.8 branches. :)
> >
> > If anyone wants to do long-term maintenance for 1.8 please let me
> > know. I would happily hand it over to someone if they want to go with
> > it for longer.
> >
> > Same goes for 1.9 just contact me if you want to help out.
> 
> Officially, at the moment we only do:
> Backport to 1.9 when there's something to backport, backport to 1.8 when 
> it's super serious and you feel like it. :)
> 
> I think we should drop 1.8, and maybe come up with an LTS model, so 
> people will have LTS releases they can count on. No idea though, as I 
> personally prefer bleeding edge.

until we have manpower for lts - i say no. upgrade to get updates. simple


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