[Koha-devel] Long-term support version of Koha (bug 31008)

[Victor Grousset/tuxayo]

Hi :)

On 22-06-22 09:47, Paul Poulain wrote:
> 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/

We already drop and gain support support for Debian/Ubuntu versions 
during the lifetime of Koha releases.

> Elastic Search/MariaDB... upgrades ? 

Same, we are getting patches for ElasticSearch 7 and OpenSearch support 
backported to oldoldstable. And in the past, I recall we dropped ES 5 
support to fix a bug with ES 6.

> 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 ?

So it should be ok. Unless there are scenarios not covered by what we 
already do?

Cheers,

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Victor Grousset/tuxayo