[TYPO3-core] Official information about the upcoming LTS version

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 19-9-2012 21:56, Michael Stucki wrote:
> while we talk about major/minor/patch versions, the following document
> should be mentioned again. As far as I can see, it is still fully valid:
> http://typo3.org/teams/core-development-team/resources/release-workflow/

It will become mostly valid with 6.0. Between 4.0 and 6.0 we had to use 
minor versions as major or minor releases. There were releases which 
could be regarded major versions, but the 5.0 was still reserved so it 
had to be a minor version number.

Regarding the Release lifecycle mentioned in the article we provide 
updates for more older branches than stated in the article. Until spring 
of 2014 we will support at least three (!) branches instead of one.

> Am 19.09.2012 15:18, schrieb Tolleiv Nietsch:
> The precondition for running mass updates is that there are no changes
> required to a site. That's exactly the reason why patch-level versions
> must not change database schemes while major and minor can do.

Patch-level versions with security fixes might in fact contain changes 
which require some action by an integrator/administrator/maintainer.

We could run automated updates for patch-level versions, provided that 
there is a mechanism to change this into a notification for a pending 
update (in case human intervention is needed).

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 Core Team member

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