todo: add summary of development process for each component
Every 3rd release is LTS for 5 years.
Most cost-efficient process is to develop in trunk, in time for April and October releases.
Backporting is possible
No fixed time frames for releases, but cadence is fast enough.
Openfire Meetings bundles several apps (Jitsi Meet is the big one), and it's a challenge to keep everything in sync.
As a GNU/Linux operating system, there is a lot of flexibility in getting packages, but it's a slippery slope to dependency hell.
Upstream has a release every few years, and a very long support cycle. Tends to package older versions, which forces us to do things like: How to install PHP 5.6 on ClearOS
yearly releases
LTS for 5 years
https://kanarip.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/the-evolution-of-kolab-development/
https://kanarip.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/introducing-winterfell/
https://docs.kolab.org/developer-guide/index.html
Syncthing follows a rapid release process. As a p2p app, if the protocol changes, old versions can't sync data with new versions