On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 16:18 +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2021-11-05 11:53:25 -0400 (-0400), Mohammed Naser wrote: [...]
I wonder what are the thoughts of the community of having LTS + normal releases so that we can have the power of both? I guess that is essentially what we have with EM, but I guess we could introduce a way to ensure that operators can just upgrade LTS to LTS.
It can complicate things a bit from a CI and project management side, but I think it could solve the problem for both sides that need want new features + those who want stability?
This is really just another way of suggesting we solve the skip-level upgrades problem, since we can't really test fast-forward upgrades through so-called "non-LTS" versions once we abandon them. well realisticlly i dont think the customer that are pusshign use to supprot skip level upgrades or fast forward upgrades will be able to work with a cadence of 1 release a year so i would expect use to still need to consider skip level upgrade between lts-2 to new lts
we have several customer that need at least 12 months to complte certifacaiton of all of there workloads on a new cloud so openstack distos will still have to support those customer that really need a 2 yearly or longer upgrade cadance even if we had and lts release every year. there are many other uses of openstack that can effectivly live at head cern and vexhost been two example that the 1 year cycle might suit well but for our telco and finacial custoemr 12 is still a short upgrade horizon for them.