[yocto] Meaning of 'Support Level' column in https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Alain,

On Friday, 31 March 2017 7:44:22 AM NZDT Alain Achkar wrote:
> We are currently on Jethro and planning to upgrade to Krogoth (can't use
> Morty yet, since Freescale/NXP hasn't released Morty yet).
> 
> Just wondering what the meaning of the 'Support Level' column is, or if you
> can point me to documentation about it.

"Development" means that the release is currently being worked on.

"Stable" means that the release is a stable release and will receive backports 
of important security / bug fixes (but not features).

"Community" means that maintenance is left up to the community - in reality 
that means that it is no longer officially maintained, but well-tested patches 
may still be accepted.

There's another page with policy information that may be helpful:

  https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre