> It'd be a big lift (if not impossible) to get projects like cert-manager cilium whatever to adopt the longer release cycle as well. It's a great point which

> It'd be a big lift (if not impossible) to get projects like cert-manager cilium whatever to adopt the longer release cycle as well. It's a great point which probably should be part of the discussion. Say even if Kubernetes project offered LTS, how would that play into every other project that is pulled together. > Is it normal for a distribution to also package upstream projects that customers want? I suspect it differs by distribution. The distribution I worked on included a bunch of other projects, but it was also pretty niche.