On 11 August 2016 at 07:43, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> tl;dr Need to update nodejs, but can't decide if v4 or v6, >> v4: will update sooner, shorter support (2018-04-01) >> v6: longer support (2019-04-01), *might* break more things, >> won't be in stable sooner than mid-October if everything >> goes well > > FYI, I think this tl;dr missed explaining why v6 won't be in stable until > mid-October. What Zuzana and I discussed on another list is that the Node.js v6 > schedule has it going into LTS mode on the same day that 0.10.x reaches EOL. > However, v6 is already out and available. The major thing that changes at that > point is just that from then on, they commit to adding no more major features > (as I understand it). This is the best moment for us to switch over to it. > > However, in the meantime we will probably want to be carrying 6.x in > updates-testing for at least a month prior to declaring it stable (with > autokarma disabled) with wide announcements about the impending upgrade. This > will be safe to do since Node.js 6.x has already reached a point where no > backwards-incompatible changes are allowed in, so we can start the migration > process early. > How will the packages be named? Are we doing this as nodejs6 or nodejs? -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
