Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

[L. David Baron]

On Wednesday 2016-10-12 15:16 -0400, Peter Dolanjski wrote:
>    - Monitor user numbers as ESR 52 reaches end of life (2018), continue
>    security patches for XP/Vista users on ESR 52 branch if user numbers
>    justify it (exact threshold TBD)

This sounds like the potential to be a commitment to support the
ESR52 branch for an indefinite amount of time.

As that commitment lengthens, it has the potential to be more of a
burden than continuing support for XP/Vista would have been (for
example, if we have security bugs that require major architectural
changes to fix).  The cost of backporting security fixes increases
with the age of the branch (time), probably as a worse-than-linear
function of time.

Is there a way we can avoid this potential indefinite commitment?

-David

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