Hi Jesse
The true nature of the LTS has been very poorly disseminated with
the result that everyone is very confused. At EclipseCon France I
think I succeeded in getting to the bottom of my mis-expectations.
a) The LTS will not provide any further releases. i.e. no SR3, SR4,
SR5 etc.
b) The LTS provides no publicly accessible repositories for fixes
c) The original committers have no commit rights for LTS activities
(NB this is right: maintaining code with paranoid stability requires
a very different mind-set to developing code).
Rather
a) The LTS coordinates maintenance teams to provide legacy fixes
b) All fixes are publicly available via Bugzilla
c) LTS builds will be proprietary and just a pick and mix of those
bug fixes that are important to the company doing the build
For comparison.
Any company is able to create a proprietary Eclipse release today
and charge customers for it. This is exactly what will happen in
LTS. The difference/improvement is that those companies interested
in having in-house LTS releases pool their efforts to fix legacy
bugs and make those fixes available individually.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 03/07/2013 18:30, Jesse McConnell
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