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<p>Hello David & others,</p>
<p>Good thing to have a LTS, my main question is about the ecosystem
around Koha. For example, how to manage Koha LTS regarding
Debian/Ubuntu/Elastic Search/MariaDB... upgrades ? How can we be
sure that, in 2 years, Koha LTS will become "unmaintainable"
because it requires a Perl library that can't be upgraded and the
underlying tool (OS, search engine...) isn't maintained anymore in
the compatible version ?<br>
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<p>I hope that it's a theoretical question that will never become
reality, but it has to be asked I think.</p>
<p>Good day everyone<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 22/06/2022 à 01:44, David Nind a
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<div>At the Development IRC meeting on 8 June 2022 the issue of
having a long-term support version of Koha (Koha LTS) was
discussed. (It has been discussed and proposed in the past.)<br>
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<div>Summary</div>
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General agreement was reached that:<br>
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1. A long-term support (LTS) version of Koha would be for 2.5
to 3 years <br>
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<div>2. We would start with oldstable (which is now 21.11) <br>
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<div>3. There would be an LTS maintainer role for each cycle
(there is no expectation that this is the same person for up
to three years - it is preferable that it is someone different
each cycle)</div>
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<div>4. The mandate for the LTS version would cover:</div>
<div> . security fixes<br>
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<div> . things that are broken (such as APIs (external),
dependencies (such as Elasticsearch), etc), and<br>
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<div> . essential back ports only, once past oldoldstable</div>
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<div>5. It would be an irregular release - only when something
is needed once past oldoldstable</div>
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6. We would inform the Koha Community about the LTS version of
Koha, what it is, and what it means for support (including
updates to the website, mailing list, manual section on
supported versions, etc)</div>
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<div>Next steps</div>
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<div>Your feedback is welcome on the proposed LTS version of
Koha. Feel free to provide this however you wish, including
replying to this email, IRC, and on bug 31008.</div>
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<div>It will then be discussed again, and the approach confirmed
at the next available Development IRC Meeting (ideally this
would have been the 22 June 2022 meeting, but I've just sent
this email!).<br>
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<div>References</div>
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<div>[1] Bug 31008: <a
href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31008"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31008</a></div>
<div>[2] 8 June 2022 Development IRC meeting:</div>
<div> . Minutes: <a
href="https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.html"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.html</a></div>
<div> . Log: <a
href="https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.log.html#l-134"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.log.html#l-134</a></div>
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