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authorIsaac Hollander McCreery <ihmccreery@google.com>2015-12-01 14:07:23 -0800
committerIsaac Hollander McCreery <ihmccreery@google.com>2015-12-01 14:07:23 -0800
commit5a8872ff13c3b70dea5458c481b39e2fee2bf489 (patch)
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Clarify what is meant by 'support'
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We expect users to stay reasonably up-to-date with the versions of Kubernetes they use in production, but understand that it may take time to upgrade.
-We expect users to be running approximately the latest patch release of a given minor release; we often include critical bug fixes in [patch releases](#patch-release), and so encourage users to upgrade as soon as possible. Furthermore, we expect to "support" three minor releases at a time. With minor releases happening approximately every three months, that means a minor release is supported for approximately nine months. For example, when v1.3 comes out, v1.0 will no longer be considered "fit for use": basically, that means that the reasonable response to the question "my v1.0 cluster isn't working," is, "you should probably upgrade it, (and probably should have some time ago)".
+We expect users to be running approximately the latest patch release of a given minor release; we often include critical bug fixes in [patch releases](#patch-release), and so encourage users to upgrade as soon as possible. Furthermore, we expect to "support" three minor releases at a time. "Support" means we expect users to be running that version in production, though we may not port fixes back before the latest minor version. For example, when v1.3 comes out, v1.0 will no longer be supported: basically, that means that the reasonable response to the question "my v1.0 cluster isn't working," is, "you should probably upgrade it, (and probably should have some time ago)". With minor releases happening approximately every three months, that means a minor release is supported for approximately nine months.
This does *not* mean that we expect to introduce breaking changes between v1.0 and v1.3, but it does mean that we probably won't have reasonable confidence in clusters where some components are running at v1.0 and others running at v1.3.