Re: Intentions for 1.11 release timing

Daniel Shahaf wrote on 2018-06-25:
> Julian Foad wrote:
>> [...] then the support period of one or more of the older release lines
>> will simply expire before we get around to it [...]
>
> Suppose a security issue is found that affects "1.9 and all later
> versions", don't we (implicitly) promise that the fix therefor would be
> announced for all supported release lines simultaneously? [...]

That's pretty important, yes.

Forget about overlap periods, for a moment. Then there will be usually 3 supported lines (after a standard release) and sometimes 2 (after an LTS release). Previously we have had 2 supported release lines at all times. Are we comfortable with that increase, and an implicit promise to backport security fixes to all of them at once?

- Julian
Received on 2018-06-25 13:19:52 CEST