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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
