On 09/20/2012 12:56 AM, Fabien Potencier wrote:
On 9/20/12 1:14 AM, Larry Garfield wrote:
Related logistical note: Drupal 8 is currently looking at code freeze 1
April next year. However, I think it's a fair bet that we'll want to
ship on 2.3 LTS, not on 2.2, which would go out of support well-before
Drupal 8 does. We'll need to coordinate between Fabien (and whoever
else is relevant) on the Symfony side and Dries/catch (the Drupal 8
leads) on the Drupal side to see how we want to handle that. Since
we'll likely be chasing master until then we may be able to just
make an
exception to our code freeze for Symfony 2.3.
No action needed right now; I'm just flagging it as a discussion point.
I'll try looping in the Drupalers on my side. I cannot speak for the
release schedule of other Symfony-using projects.
--Larry Garfield
Confirmed that there's no issue on the Drupal end with this plan. We'll
chase master basically until 2.3 is released, then pin to that for
Drupal 8.0.
The caveat is that Drupal 8 is likely to remain in support for more than
3 years, so we're not sure if we should be chasing 2.x releases even if
they're non-LTS, see about a longer 2.3 lifetime, or what.
What is your support commitment with Drupal 8?
Fabien
Drupal supports the current and previous stable, so Drupal 8 will be
supported until Drupal 10 is released. The timeline is not fixed,
however, as Drupal operates on a "when it's ready" schedule. Until
recently the release cycle was about yearly (give or take), but Drupal 7
was a 3 year dev cycle and Drupal 8 is on track to be a 2.5 year cycle.
There are many voices calling for shorter release cycles (with good
reason), but for planning purposes I'd say we should be thinking of a 2
year cycle each for Drupal 9 and 10, so 4 years before Drupal 8 is
retired is a reasonable estimate.
(Drupal allows for overhauls and API changes in each major version,
which is why a shorter, tighter release cycle is not currently
feasible. Whether or not that will change in the future is anyone's guess.)
--Larry Garfield
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