> > With that said, there are Linux distributions which provide their own > packaged version of Django, and which have longer support periods in which > they will backport important fixes into their package even if the Django > team isn't supporting that version anymore. >
Specifically: - The django package in Ubuntu is in main <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories#Main> (ie maintained by a paid Canonical employee for the lifetime of the OS) - Django 1.6 was EOL in April April 2015 but Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was maintained until April 2019 (the last changelog <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django/1.6.11-0ubuntu1.3> was from Jan 2019 -- that's almost 4 years of backports). You can get an extra 3 years on top of that if you want to pay Canoncial. - Django 1.8 was EOL in April 2018 but Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is maintained until 2021 (and Canonical are still applying backports <https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-django/python-django_1.8.7-1ubuntu5.10/changelog>). As above, 3 years extra if you pay. - Django 1.11 is EOL life in April 2020 but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is maintained until 2023, or 2028 (+5 years) if you want to pay. - This comes to a full 9 years of updates from first release for django 1.6 & 1.8, and 11 years for django 1.11 If Ubuntu isn't your thing then RHEL has a 10 year support guarantee (for free if you can tolerate the unpredictable lag between RedHat and CentOS releases). If you don't want to be tied to a specific linux distribution then you also have ActiveState <https://www.activestate.com/> (which only depends on glibc). In short, it's certainly not like there aren't already extended options if the default django 3 year policy is not enough. If someone really needs 6+ years of updates then it seems reasonable to me that they pay someone to do that work instead of expecting it from volunteer django maintainers. Levi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a562dc2a-566b-427d-a0d8-1a077c66c32f%40googlegroups.com.
