Yes, unless more people are signing up for backporting, I don't see how we can keep LTS release lines longer than it currently is. The process change does not make this respect better or worse, as others pointed out.
To me, the main motivations of this change are two folds. The main one is that I'm hoping the predictable and more transparent schedule will help large users to align their acceptance testing efforts with our LTS release efforts. Every large user goes through their own set of testing before they deploy stuff internally, and we'd really like them to do that while we are soaking the release. The other is that it creates a clearer sense of expectations between us the developers as to when who does what. We only communicate over IRC / e-mail, and with a large time zone difference between us, the latency of the communication has been large. This change helps us get things done with less interactions. 2014-01-23 Vojtech Juranek <[email protected]> > On Thursday 23 January 2014 08:23:21 Zeitoon wrote: > > Ok, this means then that there will be no guarantee that the next LTS > > release will be more stable than the previous one. > > I don't fully understand this implication, but anyway, we have never given > any > guarantee about the stability :-) Please note that backporting to older > LTSs > doesn't imply better stability as backports itself can introduce new bugs > and > the risk of such bugs grows with backporting to older and older releases > > > Also, Richard Made a point with the security patches. > > well, this is community driven effort and thus the resources are limited. > If > someone wants to start with backporting security bugfixes into more LTSs, I > guess everybody will welcome such effort, but so far, as already Daniel > mentioned in previous email, we had hard times to keep the schedule (well, > we > don't keep it at all) just with one LTS, so I can hardly imagine that we > would > support more LTS (at least with current schedule). > > Thanks for understanding > Vojta > -- Kohsuke Kawaguchi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
