Why end-of-life LTS releases in April?

[john]

Hi William,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:11 AM, William Walter Kinghorn
<williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> This is the way I look at it
>
> 1. you get a new LTS every 2 years
> 2. supported for 3 years
> 3. gives me a year to upgrade
>
> Now where you are, you want to upgrade approx 3 months after the LTS release, that means you will have 3 months of bug fixes and other things possibly being fixed, before you do your upgrade
>
> Where I am from, South Africa, we start a new school year in January, So I have 8 or 9 months ( depending on when I set it up ) of fixes before I upgrade, as well as 3 to 4 months before the EOL.
>
> William

Yes, I think you are right. The more I consider my question, the
sillier it seems. :-P I appreciate your examples.

John