Re: Changes for after the freeze

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 09:19:47AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I went to mariadb.org and tried to figure this out, but it was a twisty
> maze of pages none of which set expectations for the date until when a
> branch would be maintained.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB#Versioning

10.6 will be supported for 5 years (until 2026), 10.8 will be supported
for 2 years (until 2023).

> I would tend to say that for a branch to be default, there should be a
> reasonable expectation of maintenance for 3 years after the first stable
> release of that branch.
> 
> Another view is to ask what a person running a production system,
> intended to be low risk, would want to do about how often they update
> the db across branches, but I think they'll be just about ok with 3
> years, maybe a little grumbly, and really unhappy about 1.
> 
> I don't think we need 5 or 8 years.