As can be clearly seen from the breadth of the update streams, once
F+2
is released, F+1 still gets a moderate number of updates, but F only
gets major bugs fixed, at best. Some maintainers care more, some less,
but it's pretty obvious that our "oldstable" release is not where the
maintainers are. Now imagine how well we would support F-4 (36 months)
or F-6 (48 months). I'd guess "not at all".
I don't see this going anywhere without a lot of new maintainers.
Zbyszek
How about keeping the number of supported releases the same, just change the support
window for them. For example have one release that is supported for 6 months, and then
have one release that is supported for longer.