Re: how many stable branches to have

[Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail () orange fr>]

> From: Michal Sekletar <msekleta () redhat com>

> Instead I propose we should consider scheme used by Linux kernel, i.e.
> having {tcpdump,libpcap}-$version-stable and
> {tcpdump,libpcap}-$version-longterm branches.

AFAIK, This is not the scheme used by the linux kernel.
they don't have '-stable' or '-longterm' in their names as these are 
moving 'attributes' given on the main page of kernel.org.

I propose this:
We could give an "End of Life" date for each release branches.
This mean that after this date, the tcpdump group would not update any 
more the branch.

After this date, if needed, it would be the responsibility of the distro 
maintainers to put patches in their distro repositories.

Example, for tcdpdump:
<= 4.2: EoL = exceeded
4.3-4.5: EoL = 31/12/2015
4.6: EoL = 30/06/2016
4.7: EoL = 31/12/2016 (4.8+ must be publish before ...)

Francois-Xavier


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