<div dir="ltr"><div>I also support this. Although I think it might be better to extend to 4 months instead of 6 given how long our release cycles have been historically.<br><br></div>dkl<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Dave Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justdave@bugzilla.org" target="_blank">justdave@bugzilla.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The following proposal was on the agenda for our Project meeting<br>
yesterday, but because it was the only thing on the agenda, and we felt<br>
it warranted a larger audience than those in attendance at the meeting,<br>
we opted to call off the meeting and post it here.<br>
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Proposal (from LpSolit) : Reduce the number of supported branches.<br>
Instead of waiting for {N+3}.0 to be released before N.x reaches EOL, I<br>
propose N.x reaches EOL 4 months after the release of {N+2}.0. Concrete<br>
example: instead of waiting for 6.0 to be released before 4.2 reaches<br>
EOL, I propose 4.2 reaches EOL 4 months after the release of 5.0<br>
(probably means around 5.0.2). Two major reasons for that: 1) when we<br>
are closer from the next major release, having to think about very old<br>
branches is a pain (think about security backports, QA, maintain old<br>
repo alive, release stuff), and 2) data shows that installations still<br>
running old versions of Bugzilla generally do not care about upgrading<br>
(e.g. install 4.0.1 and that's it; never upgrade to 4.0.17, so why<br>
should we bother that long?).<br>
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Since LpSolit hasn't posted it here himself yet I figured I'd get it out<br>
there. Discuss.<br>
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