Thanks for your reply, Kyle! (And sorry for my delayed answer, your message hit the spam folder!?) Inline replies below. Le jeu. 7 oct. 2021 à 13:15, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> a écrit :
1. LTS I think it's time to have a Long Term Support release. We noticed that some people are still using very old versions, having a version that is maintained several years could help them. We could backport critical security bugs only. 4 (5?) years would be great.
This has been proposed in the past. The general consensus at the time was that we as a community want to encourage libraries to stay on the latest versions of Koha and not to hang back on older versions. I'm not necessarily opposed, but such a role will require quite a commitment.
For 22.05, Calalyst and Wainui are offering to maintain 19.11, and there is a gap as there is no candidate for 20.05. So it's kind of our first LTS :)
5. Apply patches We need a script to apply the patches on the different branches, automatically. That's an easy bit to develop and it will help us a lot.
I'm not sure what you mean? Do you mean something that would apply a bug's patch set to say master, stable and oldstable and report on the bug if it doesn't apply to one? Or script in qa-test-tools to do that? Something else entirely?
In the first step I was suggesting a script in the release-tools repo to auto-apply a patch set on the different stable branches. But then, our imagination is the limit :)