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Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:47:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 08269a83 (TLSv1.3:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:256:NO); Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:47:17 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" , "brian m. carlson" , Ben Knoble , Christian Brabandt , Collin Funk , Eli Schwartz , Elijah Newren , Ezekiel Newren , Phillip Wood , Pierre-Emmanuel Patry , Sam James , Taylor Blau Subject: Re: LTS "lieutenant", was Re: [PATCH RFC v4 7/9] BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory Message-ID: References: <20250910-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v4-0-4a63fc69278d@pks.im> <20250910-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v4-7-4a63fc69278d@pks.im> <61e4895a-415e-f2ba-97d7-23aa99334191@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <61e4895a-415e-f2ba-97d7-23aa99334191@gmx.de> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 10:53:02AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Let me propose an alternative, one that is much more likely to be accepted > by actual Git users, including professional ones: How about assigning a > trusted, prolific Git contributor as LTS maintainer? One who is deeply > familiar with the Git project and can, if the need arises, help the Git > project steer clear of unnecessary conflict-making e.g. via > intentionally-incompatible bug fixes on the non-LTS branch? Kind of like > the lieutenants in the Linux kernel project. > > Naturally, I am thinking of you, Patrick. You have demonstrated diligent > work in the Git project, are highly trusted both inside and outside the > Git project, and you seem to genuinely care about the long-term success of > the Git project. > > An additional benefit of this would be to have a dependable release policy > for older release trains, just like other projects have. I have heard the > desire for such a policy many times. As I mentioned in another part of this thread I think it's still a bit premature to talk about how all of this will play out, as the potential LTS release is still at least a year out, and then it'll be probably a while before we actually need to care about handing over to an LTS maintainer. That being said: I already mentioned somewhere (please don't ask me where, I don't know anymore and the threads are huge) that I would be willing to do this. It certainly is not the most glorious or joyful task, but hopefully this isn't too much work? Maybe I'm being naive and will regret it. I certainly don't insist on doing it -- if anyone else would feel like they would really like to do it in my stead, then I wouldn't complain, either. In the end I think we should discuss this more and finalize details once the LTS release handover becomes more concrete. Right now, it's still this distant thing in the future, and who knows what projects I'll find until then to fall into disfavor :) Patrick