Rob Bradford

The term "virtual environment" is already used by https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html so I don't think that it a good name.

I would like feedback from @cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor-maintainers and the wider community if this is something that is desired or whether the scope needs to be different.

> What is the cadence of picking an LTS release? I don't think maintaining too many LTS releases is economical. I do think having overlapping-in-time LTS releases are important. Great...

> We need to define clearly what it means to pull security fixes for the dependencies. Are we gonna update the dependencies based on the patch version or the minor...

> > > What is the cadence of picking an LTS release? I don't think maintaining too many LTS releases is economical. I do think having overlapping-in-time LTS releases are...

@weltling The README lists our current guarantees: https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/#3-status > Cloud Hypervisor is under active development. The following stability guarantees > are currently made: > > * The API (including command...

> Also given that we don't have a patch version in tags, there should be probably a concrete guidance to read the stability from the version string? What does this...

There are lots of good points here. Thank you both @liuw and @weltling for contributing. I would be interested to here from @fidencio about whether any kind of LTS release...

> @rbradford thanks for going through this. I'd then start writing based on this discussion to have some release definition. > > One question yet - for the current release...

Thanks to @weltling we have some good documentation on releases. Can we restart the conversation about LTS releases. I'm thinking about making v25.0 since we have some deprecations that will...