On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be worth while to discuss the possibility of LTS releases > (Long Term Support) with 5 or 7 year support (from time of initial > release)...? > > 5.3 is 2.5 years old now. Which means depending on the option that's > chosen here, it'll be completely out of support a mere 3.5 to 4.5 > years after initial release. For a platform or program, that's fine. > But for a programming language, that seems a bit... short. > > Instead, I'd like to see at least one current release be "LTS", or > "extended support" which would then be covered by security fixes (at > the very least) for at least 5, and possibly 7 or even 10 years after > initial release. > > If you think it's worth talking about, I'll whip up an RFC to go over > what I mean and more justification for it... > > there was a discussion about using lts versions: http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg51086.html http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg50773.html but there were no consensus about it. I think that we don't need an "new" RFC, we just need to answer the same questions which was just "skipped" (basically discussed to the death, but we couldn't reach a conclusion) back then: - how many concurrent releases do we want/can support - do we need lts releases, if so then how will we chose that -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
