Re:Nextcloud Hub 21
by nickthemagicman on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:14PM
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Numerous pieces of software do LTS with no additional cost or supported via other avenues.
It's literally just branching at one release and fixing bugs in that release for a few years, which also benefits upstream branches.
That way people may lose new features but gain stability.
> It's literally just branching at one release and fixing bugs in that release for a few years
This takes engineering time, i.e. money. It may also benefit upstream branches, but again porting patch between branches takes time, especially after massive refactoring happened on latest branch.
Yeah, that's why I pay for a managed K8s instance for my toy projects but do my own sysadmin work on various self-hosted things. The former is not my hobby so I'd rather pay someone else to do it.
This is an inherent limitation of our current tech stack, and unfortunately the cheapest mitigation we have is "take full system snapshot a.k.a. do your sysadmin work". The alternative (LTS release etc) all cost much more money.