Hi all,
I'd like to discuss whether we can make the next Applications release an
LTS release. What would be needed from a practical point of view? (changes
to release/i18n scripts, etc.?)
About the schedule, I think we could release the LTS tarballs the same day
we release the usual bugfix tarballs:
* release of 17.12.1
* release of 17.12.2
* release of 17.12.3
* release of 18.04.1 + release of 17.12.4
* release of 18.04.2 + release of 17.12.5
* release of 18.04.3 + release of 17.12.6
* release of 18.08.1 + release of 17.12.7
* release of 18.08.2 + release of 17.12.8
* release of 18.08.3 + release of 17.12.9
... and so on.
Motivations for making 17.12 an LTS release:
* 17.12 due in December, next Plasma LTS due in January.
* New openSUSE and Ubuntu LTS releases due next year.
* 17.12 won't have kdelibs4 applications, so it would be a 'stable' target.
Of course we should ask distributions if they actually need an LTS for
Applications (I can send another mail at distributi...@kde.org after we
agree that an LTS is doable), but I don't see why they wouldn't.
Comments?
Cheers,
Elvis
