[SSSD] The future of the 1.5 and 1.8 LTM branches

Hi, As you may know, some SSSD releases are designated as Long Term Maintenance releases and maintained for much longer time than regular releases, making them suitable for use in distributions such as RHEL, SLES or Ubuntu LTM. The current maintenance policy was announced here: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/sssd-devel/2011-January/005474.html However, when RHEL6.4 is released, it will also include a rebase of SSSD to 1.9. That will get us into a strange situation, because on one hand, most upstream developers are most familiar with RHEL and Fedora, but the only other supported release still using the LTM 1.8 branch will be Fedora 17. As the tentative plan for RHEL6 is to stay on the 1.9 branch, I think it makes sense to proclaim 1.9.4 the next LTM release. In particular, I'd like to do the following: 1) Release 1.5.17 with the fixes that accumulated since 1.5.16. These are: git log --oneline sssd-1_5_16..sssd-1-5 1.5.17 would be the last 1.5 release and the 1.5 branch would become EOL upstream. 2) 1.9.4 would be declared the next LTM release. The 1.9 branch would still receive bugfixes, but very few (if any) new features. New feature development would happen on the 1.10 and later branches. We are tracking only a couple of known bugs in the 1.9 series and no known regressions at the moment, so I think 1.9.4 is ready quality wise. 3) The 1.8 branch will only receive the most important and security patches from now on. It wouldn't go completely unmaintained, of course, as I suspect many users and distributions run 1.8.x 4) At some point, another future release would be named the next LTM and 1.8 will go completely EOL about a year from that point. It is not decided yet which release will be the next LTM. Probably not 1.10, but rather 1.11 or even later, depending on what our long term plans (including RHEL7) will look like. Does the above sound reasonable?