Re: F23 4.3 rebase plan

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:20:48AM -0600, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 03:55:47PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does it make sense to consider just going straight to 4.4 then given
> > > > it'll be out early Jan?
> > >
> > > That's a good question.  Let's assume 4.4 is released on Jan 10, which
> is
> > > a bit longer than normal because of the holidays.  4.4.1 would be out
> > > roughly around the beginning of Feb, as long as the normal schedule
> > > holds up.  So we'd be on 4.2.y for all of Jan, but it will be EOL
> before
> > > then.
> > >
> >
> > 4.2 is supposedly EOL now with 4.2.8 being the last release.
>
> Yes, but we realistically aren't going to do a build again before Jan
> anyway unless there is a major CVE that pops up.  If one does, we'd
> backport it ourselves, or we'd leverage the fact that someone else has
> picked up long term maintenance of 4.2.y.
>
> josh
>

Sure, I meant as an argument against skipping 4.3 entirely. I don't know
that I want to go through Jan backporting bits and supporting 4.2 when 4.3
is a good option until 4.4 is ready for us to push to stable releases.
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