add information on release cycle and backports #9004
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
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| Bugfixes can be backported on request to previous Nix releases. | ||
| We typically backport only as far back as the Nix version used in the latest NixOS release, which is announced in the [NixOS release notes](https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#ch-release-notes). | ||
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| Backports never skip releases (if a feature is backported to `x.y`, it must also be available in `x.(y+1)`; |
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I'm not sure this is actually a policy we're currently following. Backports are pretty much by request.
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It's not, but @roberth would like to make it such. Declaring it here may be a good start.
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It's nice in theory, but also potentially a lot of extra work, which might make us more reluctant to backport bug fixes.
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I think it's really important. If backports skip releases, we are introducing breaking changes.
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nice to see this land 馃殌 |
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closes #6063
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There is currently no information about the release cycle or support status. This is a first attempt at providing it.
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