X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (unknown [79.160.13.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: n@tanael.org) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0A15DC0147; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:56:45 +0100 From: Natanael Copa To: systmkor Cc: Alpine-devel Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] blog post - 'long term support considered harmful' Message-ID: <20150203165645.16a24551@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 16:23:24 -0800 systmkor wrote: > I came across an interesting blog post and was curious what you guys thou= ght. >=20 > http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-considered-harmful = >=20 > * > keybase.io/systmkor That is interesting indeed. I think it would be very convenient to only support 2 stable branches. I am not sure how that would work in practice though. I would like to split the aports tree and provide longer time support (2 years) for only a small set of packages rather than try support it all. -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---