[mythtv] 0.28 Release Schedule

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 09/01/16 14:16, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> 
> Forcing a vanishingly small percentage of the total PC market to use
> only the latest, brightest toys is not a long term recipe for survival.
> Ubuntu 12.04 is just 3 years old, hardly decrepit, but you're suggesting
> we ignore all those users.  The only winners here are the style gurus,
> Apple, who would have you believe that anything non-white and older than
> 18 months is history.
> 
> I don't want to support a 20 year old code base like Windows did (before
> 10) but at least 5 years seem appropriate.  It isn't difficult to
> provide legacy support and it often provides mechanisms to more easily
> move forward.
> 
> We have been discussing backwards compatibility for Myth in terms of the
> comms protocol and database.  It isn't difficult to do and has great
> benefits in maintaining user numbers.
> 

The working rule(s) for the minimum OS version we target, and therefore
aim to keep working, is the following

- the most recent ubuntu LTS release (currently 14.04)
- the current debian stable release (currently jessie)
- the current - 1 fedora release (currently f22)

if it still works on older releases then that is a bonus.

According to our smolt data, 84% of our ubuntu users are running 14.04
and the rest a mix between 12.x, 13.x, 14.10 & 15.x


Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie