Clarification of Ember 5.8 LTS Status

[captn3m0]

Filing this on behalf of endoflife.date, where I was trying to update the dates for 5.8 release, and had some questions.

/lts marks the dates for 5.8 as:

Event	Date
LTS Promotion	April 15, 2024
Bug Fixes Until	November 11, 2024
Security Fixes Until	April 28, 2025

With the following caveats:

Before a version can be called an "LTS" release, it has to spend at least 6 weeks as a stable release, where it is used and tested by thousands of developers.

Once a release of Ember gets promoted to LTS, it receives bugfixes for 36 weeks and security updates for 54 weeks.

The dates mentioned in #1102 do not align with the policy:

• 5.8.0 was tagged on 15th April 2024 with the official announcement made on 20th April 2024. It says:

  Today the Ember project is releasing version 5.8 of Ember.js and Ember CLI. This release of Ember.js is an LTS (Long Term Support) candidate.

• The expected date for LTS Promotion should be 1st June (2024-04-20 +6w), which does not match the date used in #1102
• The published date for Bug Fixes does not match the policy (2024-11-11'-36 weeks' = 2024-03-04). Expected Date as per the policy would be (2024-12-28)

Open Questions:

1. Is 5.8 a LTS candidate or promoted to LTS already? Is there a reason for the "6 weeks as stable" part being ignored?
2. What is the official release date for 5.8, used in the policy - the date of the git tag, or the announcement blog post?
3. In case the published dates override the policy, perhaps the policy can be updated to include such a note?

Apologies if this sounds like hair-splitting, but I wanted to make sure we have the right dates.