From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id F0402E00A70; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:28:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.227.17.13 listed in list.dnswl.org] Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.13]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BDBE009EF for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.159.8] ([80.43.50.149]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MTxmj-1aCzoV2MCn-00QhGa for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:28:46 +0200 To: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" From: Chris Simmonds Organization: 2net Message-ID: <561E588D.5060609@2net.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:28:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:nmvgRVF6lrqMXNyGmEAp5MfHBIs++NU3liuERgLnuIhMcIN8zyQ YUfWbA05dzhzjC5FOtp/M3vFomWATX8h1ipbCrovlKQXKOfVa3+grTdw8XljFxw3Lb343pv X4imhu/qxtgEzEdSuPHImfVU+w5jZz+IlXhJ1wIRyNsfJyuBXvSdGmLKOaYX5XuJwdX+y1V FhOWaVyNQ11fz6lx1vCfQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:2EiiAWuego8=:fe4MWQRnYiBwn+PkBG3QN+ A0vJxhURrbwyCLaJBBjTXY9Xq5ms0a6UMQHRDFXAgC9NNqSaopumJYOiTgzI92wXFMoJVwgWQ fwTizULiPF3LoaOaYSSdC4TRVPczLrJXF0pzSmcZhu5mWPbfyOZEHg8UnHhxErP8r3nRW/iMl JDlytdmBu7x/t/QFY/ZDX0bCf/DC5rMyFkus4ZeZ6JWBzd3jJYKeSXUvLbH/dlycYlcvXcWUA 9qjFilKbs3aCtN42QhMDvC7u5TgYAdKZlj+GIVWt0vxKgx74co29bAFHq2cIa2lizfG05JrrG C0JuGnZIQSjk14TWlhHjkL4lCeYCAP3FmATY30y46wy+p/7hvedr6+rCr06QZ+u1/yVFjn2/W T0IFsFQvDsYaSfQzlhiyQWMBB7tFSIbjNJUnTWnSvEg9Dhfjf7Jda1aHWJy7KViLPVsK/Whut VlSaiiONh6QWC6h+B9NTFcdd9L7seA6BdWWl95blPQqcwxeXf8tBGc6jvLW0cG998oHCDiWRL PkemkpjdjpBN3JaNNMX8OI151BRafHdDlyueVWRti86ZQwvdPIrE3uHYs8jNyOFZiSJDLuIYT XbUi0UgjxLGkpkjG+hdk3fr9lU9hSx0Mba041/eIuipw4Mwd0xTQiZ6zMYxm5VLSmFrb1lU1N BdbtDATeZ7h4wf2oxvWCrPw/a2Xw4HSRvHILrTAUwHUxBLcqoMRgMhETEDJ+VAcS5CoMLOc7X Uspq/01fhNg7jhsVqe09QeA0N7XIBZvkodZl+bKssUtyFQ34vM5TmHCaeZ4OHUc0GIsDZQfW7 mO0902LHIIgjsIstKc5A1yrSshHj0a/0AVgMplc4FoejlYFy/hfKDK5RlKc6mW7P1C4aOihc/ Ay8qnJi+goEg/vKJc5ZccEtC0RSFPT7nrCEtl6kqZK9NmmkK20o+uu0KSceraU Subject: RFC: Yocto LTS? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: chris@2net.co.uk List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:28:52 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is there a statement about the period of support for a Yocto release? Looking through the updates, it seems that 12 months is typical, a was the case for 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 for example, but I cannot see a declaration anywhere that this is the expected norm. Leading on from that, is 12 months enough? Most projects have a lifecycle that is much longer. Is there an argument for an LTS Yocto release, maybe once a year? If not, what is the recommended way for a project developer to keep a distribution up to date in the light of the several well-publicised security flaws that have been discovered over the last year or so and the new ones that will no doubt be discovered in the future? Regards, Chris Simmonds