On 12 August 2016 at 04:04, Zuzana Svetlikova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless we decide to go the "both lts versions" path, I'd update nodejs.
> I see no point in having packages, that are unmaintained by upstream, in
> the repo.
>

No problem. I am just wanting to get the correct picture of the plan
in my head .

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
> To: "EPEL Development List" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Zuzana Svetlikova" <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
> [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 6:11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [EPEL-devel] Re: nodejs update
>
> On 11 August 2016 at 07:43, Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> tl;dr Need to update nodejs, but can't decide if v4 or v6,
>>> v4: will update sooner, shorter support (2018-04-01)
>>> v6: longer support (2019-04-01), *might* break more things,
>>>     won't be in stable sooner than mid-October if everything
>>>     goes well
>>
>> FYI, I think this tl;dr missed explaining why v6 won't be in stable until
>> mid-October. What Zuzana and I discussed on another list is that the Node.js 
>> v6
>> schedule has it going into LTS mode on the same day that 0.10.x reaches EOL.
>> However, v6 is already out and available. The major thing that changes at 
>> that
>> point is just that from then on, they commit to adding no more major features
>> (as I understand it). This is the best moment for us to switch over to it.
>>
>> However, in the meantime we will probably want to be carrying 6.x in
>> updates-testing for at least a month prior to declaring it stable (with
>> autokarma disabled) with wide announcements about the impending upgrade. This
>> will be safe to do since Node.js 6.x has already reached a point where no
>> backwards-incompatible changes are allowed in, so we can start the migration
>> process early.
>>
>
> How will the packages be named? Are we doing this as nodejs6 or nodejs?
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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