Andrey Repin:
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> Greetings, Wietse Venema!
>
> > I do not care much what other projects do.
>
> Did I say you do? I just outlined two most common approaches, with examples.
Well, I don't like bringing up PHP in a discussion about Postfix :-(
> > Postfix has a good record for quality, stability and compatibility, and it
> > supports four stable releases, each release receiving updates for four
> > years.
>
> Supporting FOUR releases, four years each? feels a bit heavy in my book.
It has not been a problem, and it ensures that downstream LTS distros
won't be releasing unsupported Postfix versions.
> > I do observe that 1) several major features were ready about 6
> > months after the 3.3 stable release that would have solved a real
> > problem; and 2) I have code that is not ready for the 3.4 release,
> > but I don't want to wait with until 2020. Both problems can be
> > solved with a less-than-year release cycle.
>
> > So that is what I plan to do.
>
> I though that the very plan to have an arbitrarily timed release schedule was
> what you were feeling uncomfortable about.
>
> It seems, I was mistaken.
I agree that an arbitray schedule would be problematic.
Wietse
