The LTS idea I believe comes from the solr downloads page where 7.7.x is designated as LTS. https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:41 AM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 11/6/2019 9:58 AM, suyog joshi wrote: > > So we can say its better to go with latest stable version (8.x) instead > of > > 7.x, which is LTS right now, but can soon become EOL post launching of > 9.x > > sometime early next year. > > I don't know where you got the idea that 7.x is LTS ... but I do not > think that is correct. I don't think we have a version that could be > called LTS, at least not the way I have seen the term used. > > It's true that 7.x currently is in a state where it is unlikely to have > its feature list changed, which could be seen as stability. But chances > are that if you DO run into a bug with a 7.x version, the fix for that > problem will probably only make it into the current stable branch, so > you'd be upgrading to at least an 8.x version in order to obtain the fix. > > Changing to an LTS model would mean changes to the way development is > done on the project. Change is always scary. I've asked on the dev > list about this. > > Thanks, > Shawn > -- Adam Walz
