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From: Rene Moser <mail@renemoser.net>
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:00:01 +0100
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Daan

Have not yet decided which version, but fixes will be backported into
LTS not the other way around.

But I see what you mean. The code base may have much diverted before 4.7
right?

It is not really a problem. It only means more work (argh...). Sooner or
later this will happen for every release we choose.

I would like to use 4.5 for several reasons, one obvious is, that we
know that it is in production on several clouds, including us.


On 01/10/2016 12:40 PM, Daan Hoogland wrote:
> Rene, I would advice to support 4.7 as LTS. It adheres to the new
> development/release process unlike 4.5 and any bugfixes there can
> automatically be merged forward to newer releases to reduce the chance of
> regression.
> 
> I am in favour of the general concept.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Rubens Malheiro <rubens.malheiro@gmail.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>> Em 9 de jan de 2016 8:55 PM, "Rene Moser" <mail@renemoser.net> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I recently started a discussion about the current release process. You
>>> may have noticed that CloudStack had a few releases in the last 2 months.
>>>
>>> My concerns were that many CloudStack users will be confused about these
>>> many releases (which one to take? Are fixes backported? How long will it
>>> receive fixes? Do I have to upgrade?).
>>>
>>> We leads me to the question: Does CloudStack need an LTS version? To me
>>> it would make sense in many ways:
>>>
>>> * Users in restrictive cloud environments can choose LTS for getting
>>> backwards compatible bug fixes only.
>>>
>>> * Users in agile cloud environments can choose latest stable and getting
>>> new features fast.
>>>
>>> * CloudStack developers must only maintain the latest stable (mainline)
>>> and the LTS version.
>>>
>>> * CloudStack developers and mainline users can accept, that mainline may
>>> break environments but will receive fast forward fixes.
>>>
>>> To me this would make a lot of sense. I am actually thinking about
>>> maintaining 4.5 as a LTS by myself.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts? +1/-1?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> René
>>>
>>
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> 
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