I have zero interest in having an LTS “policy” that requires any further 
commitment of my personal time to random people who ask for it but aren’t 
willing to pay. I consider my non-paid work to Solr a _volunteer_ activity, not 
something anyone has a right to demand as “support”, long-term or otherwise.

Best,
Erick

> On Nov 13, 2019, at 12:34 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We've had somebody on the Solr mailing list asking questions about our LTS 
> version.
> 
> The thing about this is that we don't really HAVE an LTS version.  Our major 
> version release pace and the way we deal with older branches mean that a 
> single major version branch is never in a given state for long enough to 
> really qualify as "long term".
> 
> The 7.x branch is in maintenance mode, so most problems that people encounter 
> with it will only be addressed in a future 8.x version.  In my mind, that 
> means it doesn't qualify as LTS.  The current stable branch is always getting 
> new features, which I think disqualifies that branch for the LTS label.
> 
> The tomcat project has an interesting way of determining when support ends.  
> Here's a message outlining it:
> 
> https://markmail.org/message/6wycxatwzwycmf43
> 
> My question is:  Do we want to change what we do here, or are we happy with 
> the current model?  If we did change it, I'm not completely sure what that 
> would look like.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shawn
> 
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