On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote: > Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 18:42 +0200, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : > >> So, why not alternate both, 1 release with backports denied but long >> life, and the 2nd with backports and update but during a shorter period. >> (X.0 would be the new distro with backports, X.1 the one more servers >> oriented or enterprise). > > Well, we can do both, ie a long life, and optional backports ? > > because alterning may be quite puzzling for people. > > I would be in favor of some kind of LTS, like Ubuntu. > > We cannot have all release with long life, not enough ressources, but > having one from time to time would be good. Except we first need to be > sure to be able to maintain a single release, so I would report this > project to 1 or 2 years in the future. > What is the typical deployment period for servers?
At the company where I work, they're leased for 3 years. If that's the average, then perhaps 3-year LTS would be sufficient?