[QGIS-Developer] QGIS LTR releases -- is it time to pull the plug?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 09:37:00AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > - Lower the supported period of a LTR release to 6 months?
> 
> I don't even see 1 year as a "long term release".  That's a medium term
> release.  The "Long Term Stable" label in the GNU/Linux world tends to
> apply to distributions that try to go for 5 years, with bug fixes only.

I agree 1 year is too short. I'd aim at 2 years for QGIS.

For comparison: we're still pushing commits to the 3.5 branch
of GEOS, which had .0 release published in 2015.

For PostGIS, we officially EOL'ed 2.4 but 2.5 is still getting
commits, and was initially published in 2018.

--strk;