Proposing April 4th as LTS transition Date

[MylesBorins]

This would be both for 6.x to move to Maintenance and 4.x to go EOL

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[jasnell]

I'm good on this. I'll be starting the plan for the Node.js 10.0.0 release shortly after cutting 9.0.0, I would anticipate 10.0.0 coming out later in the month so having these transition earlier would be good

[rvagg]

Could we just formalise EOL as the end of the month in each case rather than an arbitrary date? We've communicate that we drop support "in April" but doing it this early is likely going to be a very big surprise.
Same case could be made for 6.x moving to Maintenance although that matters much less than dropping 4.x support.

@jasnell can you explain how these shifts impact the 10.0.0 release?

[MylesBorins]

We have been using the first Tuesday of each month for releases, so I liked the symmetry for EOL and maintenance bit flip Open to making it the end of the month though

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On Oct 30, 2017 6:34 PM, "Rod Vagg" ***@***.***> wrote: Could we just formalise EOL as the end of the month in each case rather than an arbitrary date? We've communicate that we drop support "in April" but doing it this early is likely going to be a very big surprise. Same case could be made for 6.x moving to Maintenance although that matters much less than dropping 4.x support. @jasnell <https://github.com/jasnell> can you explain how these shifts impact the 10.0.0 release? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#264 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAecV8gC8SFwYB4y7McK2o3TN-rGyyj0ks5sxk8EgaJpZM4QH4a1> .

[MylesBorins]

Any more thoughts on this regarding the transition?

[gibfahn]

I think end of month makes sense.

[mhdawson]

My preference is the end of the month as well.

[MylesBorins]

As we have a release scheduled for April 4th does it make sense to simply "transition" the release line without doing it in a release?

[mhdawson]

I don't think we actually change anything when we "transition" so unless there is a case were something needs to go in between the 4th and the end of the month simply "transitioning" without a release makes sense to me.