On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:41 AM Joseph Lynch <joe.e.ly...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the idea of the 3-year support cycles, but I think since > 3.0/3.11/4.0 took so long to stabilize to a point folks could upgrade > to, we should reset the clock somewhat.
I agree, the length of time to release 4.0 and the initialization of a new release cycle requires some special consideration for current releases. > 4.0: Fully supported until April 2023 and high severity bugs until > April 2024 (2 year full, 1 year bugfix) > 3.11: Fully supported until April 2022 and high severity bugs until > April 2023 (1 year full, 1 year bugfix). > 3.0: Supported for high severity correctness/performance bugs until > April 2022 (1 year bugfix) > 2.2+2.1: EOL immediately. > > Then going forward we could have this nice pattern when we cut the > yearly release: > Y(n-0): Support for 3 years from now (2 full, 1 bugfix) > Y(n-1): Fully supported for 1 more year and supported for high > severity correctness/perf bugs 1 year after that (1 full, 1 bugfix) > Y(n-2): Supported for high severity correctness/bugs for 1 more year (1 > bugfix) This sounds excellent to me, +1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org