2016-04-07 23:52 GMT+02:00 Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net>: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:51:35PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > LTS releases could help the situation somewhat, but then again > > people tend to still want those new fancy things backported (you > > know, have the cake and eat it too) but that can't be done because > > of ABI breakage, so they're forced to run the latest version anyway. > > RH and Debian / Ubuntu don't put features in LTS except extremely rarely. > Generally only if there's severe functionality breakage or security issues > and > the rest is ignored, and for good reason, as this is much more reliable and > simple and predictable. > > If people are so irrational they can't deal with that simple of a policy, > NEXT_ABI, LTS, etc. is never going to help them. > > If people like to have backported stuff, yes of course we can make trees > and > branches for this, they are basically free in Git. But at that point > community > people in need of LTS forks of features need to step up to the plate to > help > out. >
Completely agree. Marc > > Matthew. >