Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

[Martin Meredith]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Ante Karamatic">
> 
>>So (nuking my idea), in your plan is there any place for updates?
> 
> 
> I'm sure we'll still have a dapper-backports repository.

That's the plan, and we'll be doing the same as breezy - aka as soon as
dapper+1 opens, we'll be backporting to dapper :D (dependent on external
factors)

>>We don't want to support distribution that no one will use, but we
>>promised to support it for 5 years. We have to make dapper attractive when
>>it's old too :)
> 
> 
> People who want platform support for 5 years don't want new stuff, they want
> stability (which means 'not changing', rather than 'robust').
> 
> 
>>I'm comparing time with RedHat cause RHEL is distribution that people use
>>mostly on their intranet, database, misson critical servers. Of course,
>>since they have support from RH. But, the point is, you will have hard
>>time finding someone using RH7 on those machines. Even RHEL2.1 would be
>>almost impossible to find (and only 3,5 years are behind that
>>distribution).
> 
> 
> There are *many* people running RH7 (despite being EOL) and RHEL2.1. Heaps.
> 
> - Jeff
> 

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