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On 09/08/2015 02:24 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2015-09-08 13:32:58 -0400 (-0400), Ben Swartzlander wrote:
> [...]
>> It makes sense for the community to define LTS releases and coordinate
>> making sure all the relevant projects are mutually compatible at that
>> release point.
> [...]
> 
> This seems premature. The most recent stable branch to reach EOL
> (icehouse) made it just past 14 months before we had to give up
> because not enough effort was being expended to keep it working and
> testable. As a community we've so far struggled to maintain stable
> branches as much as one year past release. While there are some
> exciting improvements on the way to our requirements standardization
> which could prove to help extend this, I really want to see us
> demonstrate that we can maintain a release longer before we make
> such a long-term commitment to downstream consumers.

And, the LTS question is separate from the feature deprecation question.
They are both pro consumer behaviors that have cost on the development
teams, but they are different things.

We rarely get resolution on one thing by entwining a different thing in
the same question.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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