On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:25 AM Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be helpful if other people who use LTS could share > their motivations for doing so, and if the release/security teams could > share what issues make LTS release support problematic or difficult (a > few things have been mentioned on IRC, but I'll let those people speak > for themselves). > > The main problem with supporting LTS in security releases is after they start to get old, backporting of those patches becomes a real chore for each release. 1.19 especially required a *lot* of wrangling on each release to get things back-portable because of the amount of code that had changed in the meantime. Most of the comments I've made re: LTSes have happened when working on a nasty backport so take them with a grain of salt. This should not be a problem though. The release pipeline needs more cleanup and automation so we don't have to worry about backporting unless it actually causes conflicts (save the human labor for things a script can't figure out). If I can find the cycles to fix this, 95% of my complaint with an LTS goes away. The other 5% is ideological and I can deal with it ;-) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
