Long-term support termination criteria (was: bzr 2.0.0 final code frozen!)

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/25 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
> Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:
>
>> Good idea. Here's what we have in the NEWS file (apparently unmerged
>> by pqm) at the moment, but I think a longer post would be good.
>
> Thanks for this information.

Maybe we should write and circulate them earlier, at rc time, when we
get back to a more stable state.

>
>> The Bazaar team decided that 2.0 will be a long-term supported
>> release, with bugfix-only 2.0.x releases based on it, continuing for
>> at least six months or until the following stable release.
>
> This implies a difference between “long-term supported release” and
> “stable release”. (If there's no difference, I hope a single term can be
> chosen and applied consistently.)
>
> Isn't the release of Bazaar 2.0 going to be followed quite promptly by
> another stable release, certainly much sooner than six months; hence (by
> the above description) ending the “long-term support” at that point?

Yes, that text was ambiguous.  How about just

  Bazaar 2.0 will be supported with bugfix-only 2.0.x releases for at
least the next six months.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>