On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Håvard Sørli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23. des. 2012 13:52, Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> support 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 at the same time.
>>
> I do not think we would (with the current developer base) support more
> than 2 active releases in the long run. We my have 3 releases for a short
> term period, during a new 1.x point release.
>
In the past we have talked about wanting to promise five years of support
for every major version. There are a couple reasons for this. The first
is that people may have integration components that they may not want to
redo every two or three years. Our current non-destructive upgrade is very
good at stock installs but it does require redoing integration components.
At one year to release that means about 4-5 releases to support. I
think this is also an approach that is likely to get us more developers.
>
> At the current "speed" it takes about a year to release a 1.x point
> release. It takes 3-6 mounts to gain trust for the new release in the
> community. A user can choose to do a point release upgrade each year or
> wait 2. years, and still get support. We my chose to backport fixable
> security fixes that are part of releases included in Debian stable for a
> longer period.
>
I think there is also something to keep in mind. I would expect two
things to happen. The first is that bug reports would come in slower over
time. Right now we are working through a very few user-contributed bug
reports, plus a larger number of bug reports that came from Erik's
documentation efforts. At least one of the user-reported bugs is behavior
that we inherited from SQL-Ledger. So this is already happening despite
the fact that we are still releasing bugfix releases frequently.
So my general thinking is that older branches will at some point
(presumably after 2-3 years on average) achieve maturity and at that point
I have trouble imagining much in the way of work necessary unless there is
a sudden, new security issue discovered that goes way back.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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