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Symfony LTS?
December 02, 2013, 06:00:13 pm
I just came across http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releases.html and loved the transparency and predictability of it. (Would be nice if we could get up to that level.)

However, it also raised the question of whether we should be aiming as a project to use an LTS for our infrastructure or try to keep current with changes every release. I have a bit of an inclination to go with an LTS given our limited dev resources, though I am not familiar enough with Symfony and its pace of evolution to know how significant the cons are to that approach. On the other hand, one yhing that makes it much easier to commit to using the non-LTS versions is the Symfony community commitment to backward compatibility and use of deprecation.

Is it just me or are these not important questions that we should be discussing?
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Re: Symfony LTS?
December 03, 2013, 10:31:35 am
+1 LTS

I assume that their "LTS" designation applies to Symfony Components and everything Symfony Standard Edition, regardless of whether one actually uses Symfony Standard Edition? So, for example, if we adopted Symfony Console and Symfony HttpFoundation but not Symfony Form, it would still make sense to track the LTS versions.

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Re: Symfony LTS?
December 03, 2013, 10:55:10 am
Yes, my take is that one can pick and choose components of Symfony, and that within a specific version they should all interoperate nicely. So Symfony Standard Edition version 2.3 will be maintained until mid 2016, whereas version 2.4 will only be maintained until mid-2014.
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