[Koha-devel] Workflow improvement suggestions for security releases

[Chris Cormack]

We have very few (I think none) 19.11  libraries left. Almost all of our libraries are either running 21.05 or in the process of upgrading). However we have committed to maintain 19.11 for the community for at least one more cycle. 

It's very low maintenance as its pretty much just security patches from here.
If no one else takes over it next cycle we will do it again.

Having an LTS release would be useful. By far the majority of Koha libraries are not with a support provider, and if we check hea, there's a large (1000+) number of libraries running a version of 19.11.

It would also be one step closer to getting into Debian proper. (a long term dream of mine) 

Chris 



On 20 October 2021 7:13:39 am NZDT, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 :)
>>
>
>I suppose we need to understand Catalyst's upgrade strategy a bit more. It
>we as a community are going to do LTS, we need to really commit to it.
>19.11 will be two years out as of the 21.11 release.
>Ubuntu LTS releases are every two years. If my math is correct, that would
>mean that 21.11 would be the next LTS release. Does Catalyst plan on
>upgrading from 19.11 to 21.11?
>I'm curious how many libraries would utilize an LTS release and upgrade
>bi-annually.
>Do we have any metrics on what is being pulled from the community apt
>server? If not, is it possible to add tracking?
>
>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 :)
>>
>
>That sounds good to me! I can imagine a new bugzilla field for "Fails to
>apply to" that would be a list of release branches ( 21.05.x, 20.11.x, etc
>) so we would be aware.
>
>Kyle

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