[Development] Release plan moving forward

[Uwe Rathmann]

On Wed, 10 May 2017 09:21:37 +0200, André Hartmann wrote:

>  From Lars original mail:
> 
>  > Of course, we will also continue to support 5.6 for the promised
>  > three years. We are planning to release 5.6.3 in Summer, after which
>  > 5.6 will move into the 'very strict' mode as defined in the branch
>  > policy QUIP.

Ah sorry - I missed that part.

But when looking into the QUIP I read it as 5.6 is about to enter 'very 
strict' in the 3rd year - what would be summer 2018 considering the 
release of 5.6.0 ( March 2016 ) being the starting point, right ?

So the announcement is about to cut the 'strict' stage by almost one year 
- what basically means a stop of fixing P0/P1 bugs 1 year before, what 
had been promised.

Lars explains it because of new features in more recent versions. But 
being outdated is in the nature of any LTS release and IMHO can't be an 
argument for not taking the 5.6 promise seriously.

ciao,
Uwe