<div dir="ltr">Just copy statement from <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#support-phases">http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#support-phases</a><br><br>"<b>The exact length of any given stable branch life support is discussed amongst
stable branch maintainers and QA/infrastructure teams at every Design Summit</b>.
It is generally between 9 and 15 months, at which point the value of the
stable branch is clearly outweighed by the cost in maintaining it in our
continuous integration systems."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-08 1:59 GMT+08:00 Andreas Jaeger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aj@suse.com" target="_blank">aj@suse.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 2017-02-07 18:52, Jay S Bryant wrote:<br>
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> On 2/7/2017 11:41 AM, Sean McGinnis wrote:<br>
>> Just looking for clarification on our support phase timing now with the<br>
>> shorter release cycle for Ocata.<br>
>><br>
>> According to our published support phase schedule [1], each phase is in<br>
>> 6 month increments from the release date.<br>
>><br>
>> In the past, this had lined up nicely so that when N was release, N-1<br>
>> and N-2 rolled over into the next support phase. Now with Ocata being<br>
>> released less than six months from Newton, I am assuming this will not<br>
>> be the case, and we are in fact sticking with the published phases. Or<br>
>> are we adjusting for this cycle to stay with the N-1, N-2 convention?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks!<br>
>><br>
>> Sean (smcginnis)<br>
>><br>
>> [1]<br>
>> <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#support-phases" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/<wbr>project-team-guide/stable-<wbr>branches.html#support-phases</a><br>
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><br>
> Just to be explicit, if we are sticking with the 6 month statement, this<br>
> would mean we would still accept backports to Newton and Security Fixes<br>
> to Mitaka until 4/7/17 . This would also mean we would need to be<br>
> careful to ensure that any backports to Newton also make it into Ocata<br>
> to avoid holes in fix coverage.<br>
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</div></div><a href="https://releases.openstack.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.<wbr>org/</a> says "2017-04-10" as EOL date for Mitaka,<br>
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Andreas<br>
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