[Koha-devel] Release cycle [was: Ubuntu support]

[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

[snip]
> New LTSs are released every two years, but end-of-life
> is after five years (e.g. current 12.04 LTS is valid until April 2017.) 
> The 10.04 server (Lucid) is valid until
> April 2015, and the older 8.04 Heron server is still valid
> until April 2013 and could probably be dropped
> (together with 10.10 (Maverick) which was never an LTS.)
>
> This Ubuntu cycle has the great advantage of being able to
> "jump" one LTS, and still have a year of "old" validity before
> deploying "new".
>
> Is there any chance of using a similar "release cycle" as far
> as LTS is concerned for Koha?

I sort of had something like this in mind when I was talking about 
"orphaned" vs. "killed". However, in terms of Koha, because there is no one 
maintaining 3.4.X, it can't be thought of as all stable versions are LTS.

As for Ubuntu 8.04, even though it is LTS for Ubuntu, I don't think it is 
LTS for us. I purposefully wrote very discouraging remarks regarding it on 
the
    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu
page that I updated in the last couple of months.
"DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL KOHA 3.8.X ON UBUNTU 8.04 -- IT FAILS! 3.6.X MAY 
FAIL TO INSTALL AS WELL."
When I say "it fails!" I am implying that if you wanted it to work, it would 
go so seriously out of scope of these installation directions and be so 
specific for particular versions of OS and KOHA that it is not worth the 
effort (perl upgrades would be required, etcetera).

I'm not a long term user, so my vote for 3.6.7 (soon to be released) does 
not carry as much weight.

GPML,
Mark Tompsett