No other comments? If not, I guess we should just merge the proposed changes.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 18:54, Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > After the discussion on the list after the update to Boost 1.59, I have > drafted an updated support statement for the 3 supported Linux distributions > we have: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/pull/470. I would like > feedback on this policy (either here or on GitHub). > > Basically, Fedora and Debian versions will be supported as long as they are > supported by upstream. > > LTS Ubuntu versions will be supported for 1 year after the next LTS version > is released (giving a 1-year overlap). Non-LTS versions will be supported for > as long as they are supported by upstream. > > I think 3 years of support for an LTS release is a good amount (if we went > with how long upstream supported it, then we would have a 6-year support > window). This is important not only for Boost, but also for wxWidgets. Once > 3.2 is released, I would imagine that only the new releases will contain it. > That means that if we support the LTS versions for the 6-year time frame, we > would have to also support the outdated wxWidgets versions (and deal with > their quirks/bugs) for that amount of time (and 3.2 won't be released by > 20.04, that I can say for sure, so that would mean supporting 3.0 until 2026 > - when even wxWidgets upstream won't support it probably). > > -Ian > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
