| 5 Dec 2025 |
 vcunat | Why not in public, e.g. discours? | 07:24:46 |
 lennart | was just thinking about that aswell, discourse is good. thanks you all! | 07:25:10 |
| lennart | will do that maybe today, surely by next week | 07:25:21 |
 emily | I'm not sure we have reason to believe this - NixOS on the desktop seems very/increasingly popular and we already tend to get GNOME/Plasma updates right in the very last stage of the release, would be rough to pull it back | 10:18:31 |
| lennart | yea, I agree that shifting to different months is not all too good. the solution suggested by vcunat is better (adding a few more weeks of support before EOL). | 10:19:38 |
| emily | fwiw the period where we support two stable releases simultaneously already feels pretty painful in terms of handling backports and balancing Hydra builds to me, but I guess a week wouldn't change that much (OTOH if it's because of holidays, many people won't be working on those things for that week anyway) | 10:19:43 |
| emily | (only a personal opinion, not speaking for any team) | 10:19:54 |
| lennart | all good, thanks for your input! | 10:20:04 |
| lennart | I have no rush about this, gonna write the discourse post, maybe do an RFC. and if it's better not to do that, fine. | 10:20:25 |
| lennart | * I have no rush about this, gonna write the discourse post, maybe do an RFC. and if it's better not to do that, fine. :) | 10:20:34 |
| emily | it may be worth considering switching during the final beta phase? | 10:20:46 |
| emily | although I run unstable so I would say that :) | 10:20:56 |
| vcunat | Well, you can start geting ready somewhere during the freezing for sure. | 10:21:36 |
| lennart | what do you mean by that? | 10:21:53 |
| lennart | aaaah got it | 10:21:59 |
| lennart | yea… I am one (1) person for several systems… | 10:22:14 |
| emily | you can roll out the new version just before release, or at least get ready and test it in advance | 10:22:25 |
| lennart | employed by an NGO hussler life | 10:22:26 |
| emily | last minute fixes right before release do happen, but they're usually not super critical things | 10:22:42 |
| lennart | uhm, … gonna think about that. | 10:22:46 |
| emily | you can just pretend the new release comes out a couple weeks earlier than it does, since it branches off like a month prior | 10:23:10 |
 Alyssa Ross | even if you don't upgrade before release, you can at least have all the pre-upgrade work done by then | 10:23:23 |
| emily | testing before the final release also helps surface issues to make our release go smoother :) | 10:23:54 |
| lennart | that should be a solution to my problem, yes. I'll test with 26.05! | 10:24:10 |
| emily | (otherwise they will often only be found after release) | 10:24:10 |
| lennart | yea sure, but like … I'm working full time, and still cannot keep up right now. we are a smallish NGO, while I'm trying my best with my tasks :) | 10:24:52 |
| lennart | lets not discuss that with this 300+ members channel. thanks a lot for all your input! :) gonna consider in the following days if/how I post in discourse. | 10:25:41 |
