[SSSD] SSSD Long-term Maintenance Policy

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 21:12:53 UTC 2011


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The System Security Services Daemon is quickly becoming a key feature in
several GNU/Linux distributions. As such, we need to have a formal
maintenance policy in place. Currently, we have several branches that we
are maintaining (or not), with no clear vision to the distribution
packagers regarding which version to use.

Our plan moving forward is to designate certain releases as Long-term
Maintenance (LTM) releases. For these releases, we will commit to bugfix
patches until the next LTM release. After that period, LTM releases will
be declared EOL, but will still get critical security fixes as needed
for up to one year.

We will continue to make non-LTM releases in between as we added new
functionality. These releases will be more frequent than LTM releases,
and are intended for those users who want newer functionality faster.
This would be ideal for distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu, which
move quickly.

LTM releases will be intermittent and will receive a larger degree of
testing than our standard releases. This would be targeted more at
releases like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE which require a longer
commitment.

With this in mind, we plan to declare SSSD 1.5.x to be the first
official long-term maintenance release, with SSSD 1.2.x having been the
previous unofficial LTM release.

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Stephen Gallagher
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