The slower LTS cycle must come together with a longer support period! The suggestion is: "the bug fix support period extended to at least 18 months, preferably 24 months" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=313040#p1255676.
Sure, Ubuntu is a different type of platform. The point was, they were the first (in the popular Open Source projects) to come up with the now well-known calender-based version cycle. That was in January 2004 with Ubuntu 4.10 , incidentally also in a 6 month cycle. Moodle joined only after July 2012, with the generation change to 2. The first Ubuntu LTS was 6.06, June (delayed) 2006. The first official Moodle LTS 2.7 came out in May 2014. During those 10 years many others have joined the calender-based model.
Re: HEADS UP: Moodle 2.9 and minor versions coming next week
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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