On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:50:27AM -0600, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 03:55:47PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Does it make sense to consider just going straight to 4.4 then given
> > > > > it'll be out early Jan?
> > > >
> > > > That's a good question.  Let's assume 4.4 is released on Jan 10, which
> > is
> > > > a bit longer than normal because of the holidays.  4.4.1 would be out
> > > > roughly around the beginning of Feb, as long as the normal schedule
> > > > holds up.  So we'd be on 4.2.y for all of Jan, but it will be EOL
> > before
> > > > then.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 4.2 is supposedly EOL now with 4.2.8 being the last release.
> >
> > Yes, but we realistically aren't going to do a build again before Jan
> > anyway unless there is a major CVE that pops up.  If one does, we'd
> > backport it ourselves, or we'd leverage the fact that someone else has
> > picked up long term maintenance of 4.2.y.
> >
> > josh
> >
> 
> Sure, I meant as an argument against skipping 4.3 entirely. I don't know
> that I want to go through Jan backporting bits and supporting 4.2 when 4.3
> is a good option until 4.4 is ready for us to push to stable releases.

Ah, right.  OK, I think we're in agreement on that point.

josh
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