[Geary] Geary release planning

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey all,

I've put down some thoughts on the wiki about Geary releases going 
forward and am interested in getting some feedback from people in the 
community about it:

        <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/ReleasePlanning>

The plan for normal releases seems to converge with the GNOME 
twice-yearly release schedule, and if we hop on that then Geary could 
get promoted to being an official GNOME app, rather than being an app 
that just happens to be hosted on GNOME's infrastructure.

Of course, this wouldn't change our current policy of supporting other 
desktop environments as best we can, and we would continue to maintain 
that. It would however mean some more exposure for Geary, and hence 
encourage more people to both start using it and contribute to the 
project.

There's also a plan for supporting people using LTS distros going 
forward: Basically, continue to maintain an older Geary LTS version to 
support them as much as is feasible over the next few years, but 
transitioning to use Flatpak as a means of making the latest version of 
Geary available to everyone, including those on LTS distros, once it is 
generally available.

I'm hoping that this manages to strike a balance between able to 
provide fixes and updates to people in a timely fashion, while keeping 
the maintenance and development workload doable at the same time.

All feedback welcome!

Cheers,
//Mike

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