On Saturday 04 April 2015 21:16:54 Michael Manfre wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Thomas Tanner <tan...@gmx.net> wrote: > > I think rare LTS releases and frequent (6month) incremental upgrades are > > a good compromise. > > Third-party packages should support LTS releases and at least the latest > > Django version. They may drop support for earlier non-LTS releases. > > Either you stick with the LTS release or you go with the cutting edge > > with all dependencies. > > I'm not advocating for or against more frequent releases, but trying to > impose a support policy upon 3rd party packages is not going to work.
I agree fully. > The number or frequency of releases doesn't matter as much as the content > of the releases. Here I disagree. For our more corporate-oriented users, version upgrades are a beaurocratic hassle as well as a technical one. But also on the technical level, each version upgrade has overhead in testing and validation; and sometimes, for full-project products just as much as for 3rd-party apps, the problems of supporting multiple versions at once. The clients I've worked with were having a hard time keeping up as it was. Shai.
