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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’ve made the change to add “generally”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Martin Davis [mailto:mtnclimb@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 14, 2022 3:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sounds good to me, Regina.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:24 PM Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> Martin Davis <<a href="mailto:mtnclimb@gmail.com" target="_blank">mtnclimb@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>> <br>> > Our development resource bandwidth, and also downstream pipeline size.<br>> ><br>> > I think we should have a policy of one minor release per year (if<br>> > needed) And (try to) make them somewhat scheduled (which we already<br>> do<br>> > informally, to align with PostGIS).<br>> <br>In this case, I had specified 1-2 years following our current behavior.<br><br>We could maybe soften that a bit by adding the word "generally" such as<br>below.<br><br>"The GEOS project generally releases a new minor release every 1-2 years.<br>Each minor release has a git repo dedicated branch for it named after the<br>minor version."<br><br>Our cadence is something I think is useful for users and packagers of GEOS<br>to know, so they know when they can expect new features.<br>As Greg stated, I would not want to say we absolutely follow this, though I<br>can't remember a time we haven't pushed out a new minor release for longer<br>than 2 years.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>