[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Official EOL Policy

[Dan Scott]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Anoop Atre <anoop.atre at mnsu.edu> wrote:
> At today's developer meeting there was some discussion on adopting an
> official EOL policy, while there was agreement on the time frame we had some
> disagreement on the wording. So this mail is to decide on the wording of the
> official EOL policy for Evergreen releases.
>
> The final version of the policy that came out of the meeting which we can
> start with is as follows:
>
> "The community will strive to provide support (bug fixes, updates,
> documentation, etc) for a given release series until one month after two
> subsequent stable release series have been made available."
>
> Dan Scott mentioned that his would be acceptable as long as the versioning
> page[1] includes a definition of "release series" and uses the same
> terminology (consistency).
>
> So the above policy translates into:
>
> * Evergreen 2.0 release series would be maintained until 1 month after the
> release of the Evergreen 2.2 series.
>
> * Evergreen 2.1 would be maintained until 1 month after the release of the
> Evergreen 2.3 series.
>
> So at any given time the community will be supporting two release series of
> Evergreen, excluding the one month overlap where there will be three
> versions supported.
>
> Aside from the wording I would propose that we send out a reminder
> announcement about the EOL when the final beta version of the latest release
> series is made available so folks can start testing their system upgrades
> and are not caught off guard. (add task to release team list)
>
> Please respond with a vote on the current wording of the policy or with your
> version of the policy/thoughts.

+1