doc: update LTS maintenance to 3 years

Message ID 20240117161804.223582-1-ktraynor@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series doc: update LTS maintenance to 3 years |

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Kevin Traynor Jan. 17, 2024, 4:18 p.m. UTC
  The existing official policy was to maintain LTS releases for 2 years.

19.11 and 20.11 LTS releases were maintained for 3 years and there was
not significant issues caused by code divergence from main etc.

Update the policy to indicate 3 years maintenance for LTS releases, but
note that it dependents on community support.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
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 doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

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diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
index 8156b72b20..289769a61d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
@@ -54,5 +54,6 @@  LTS Release
 A stable release can be designated as an LTS release based on community
 agreement and a commitment from a maintainer. The current policy is that each
-year's November (X.11) release will be maintained as an LTS for 2 years.
+year's November (X.11) release will be maintained as an LTS for 3 years,
+however that is dependent on continued community support for validation.
 
 After the X.11 release, an LTS branch will be created for it at