The core developers at the moment simply do not have the resources for more than two lines of "official" development:
- one has to be production, the one you use in servers
- one has to be development, the one that will be the next production

Because of effort put into allowong users time for transition, now the core developers are maintaining three lines: 1.6 (production), 1.6 (development), 1.4 (old prodution).

As obvious, in a short time will be necessary for core developers to begin working on next release (1.8).

Because resources are finite, is not possible to ask core developers for maintaining an LTS as part of the community project.

On the contrary, I believe this LTS thing can be a source of revenue for a maintainer, or a company.

Is a matter of taking care of security and bug fixes in a software version you would not use, because is stale. Someone else is making money from that version you would not use, and is asking you to help him milking.

I believe that if there is enough commercial, paying interest in an LTS, a single maintainer or a company will step out to take care of it. Or maybe this revenue stream can allow for the.core developers to hire someone for this purpose.

Crowfounding, kickstarter, etc... I'm not an expert, but those days I believe is simple to assure there are money for a project.

Il 22/Nov/2015 09:12, "ik" <idokan@gmail.com> ha scritto:

Hello,

It seems that every single year there is a new EOL (end of life) of FS version (e.g. 1.4 at this time) and a new version series that replaces it (e.g. 1.6).

The problem is that it's not a simple act to update production servers.

When you have a lot of servers (in different clients and locations) it's even harder.

Many products, including Linux, and even Asterisk have LTS versions, and newer releases versions.

The new releases has new features and way to do stuff, but the LTS get bug fixes and are stable for long period of time (usually 5 years).

What does it take to have LTS version with FS, that the new releases will not stop, but EOL will be much longer for some of it's versions?

Are there any plans for such things?
How we as a community can help?

Ido

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