Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:02:25AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Russ Allbery:
> > I had picked four-year terms because I think adding one member every six
> > months (or two members every year) is probably near the upper limit of
> > membership management that the TC can deal with and still get other things
> > done, and at the same time I think four years is near the upper limit for
> > meaningful term lengths. Eight years is an eternity in free software.
> That may be true, but our release cycles also feel like an eternity :-P
> and it might make sense to have, say, at least one TC member on board who
> has been on the TC at least since the current "oldstable" was released.
So the periods between release n and n-2 have been:
4y10m - 3.1 sarge June 6th 2005
4y9m - 4.0 etch Apr 8th 2007
4y3m - 7.0 wheezy May 4th 2013
3y10m - 6.0 squeeze February 6th 2011
3y8m - 5.0 lenny February 14th 2009
3y4m - 3.0 woody July 19th 2002
2y4m - 2.1 slink March 9th 1999
2y1m - 2.2 potato August 15th 2000
1y10m - 0.93R6 November 1995
1y7m - 2.0 hamm July 24th 1998
1y3m - 1.1 buzz June 17th 1996
1y1m - 1.3 bo July 2nd 1997
1y1m - 1.2 rex December 12th 1996
Though aiui, the security team only support oldstable for 1 year after
the release date of stable (previously 6 months), so the effective life
of oldstable releases is probably shorter than the times above.
Cheers,
aj
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