Django almost went with X.0 as the LTS. Here's where X.2 was originally proposed: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/MTvOPDNQXLI/lBLWrhKJ6DIJ htt

Django almost went with X.0 as the LTS. Here's where X.2 was originally proposed: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/MTvOPDNQXLI/lBLWrhKJ6DIJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/MTvOPDNQXL... Here's the final summary: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun/25/roadmap/ The most breaking part of the the LTS cycle is right _after_ the LTS, so that's the best time to change the major version number.