End of life policy

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 21 de gener del 2025, a les 1:02:42 (Hora estàndard del Centre 
d’Europa), Justin Zobel va escriure:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I've only been a part of KDE for a few years now but I've seen it
> mentioned multiple times and I'm guessing it's been discussed before but
> I think KDE needs clearly defined end-of-life policies for it's
> software. These are common practice and let users and developers know
> what they should be using.
> 
> KDE being a mostly volunteer-driven organization would be well within
> expectations to only support the latest version of it's software.
> 
> I'm sending this email in a hope of starting a productive discussion
> around this.

Which discussion do you want to have?

Each product has it's own "supported releases" scheme.

KDE Frameworks has "no" supported release, fixes will always come in a new 
release that will also include new features. (ignoring KDE Frameworks 5) (and 
ignoring infrequent very big breaking things that get their own release)

KDE Gear has a stable release, fixes will come in the for of 3 stable 
releases.

Plasma works the same as KDE Gear as far as I understand (ignoring Plasma 5)

Independently released apps decide what they want as "supported releases" 
scheme (note that translation wise we don't support more than one stable 
branch)

Is the discussion you want to have to change this?

Or to codify it?

Or something else?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Justin