Change in Prometheus2 release cycle

[RainbowHerbicides]

Prometheus decided to introduce LTS releases with 2.37.0 https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/, which will not fit with current repository structure. I propose to make a copy of https://github.com/lest/prometheus-rpm/tree/master/prometheus2 but under different name prometheus2-lts and bump versions specifically for 2.37.X releases (2.37.1 already out but not obtainable through this repo). Compiled package could have the same name prometheus2 but description that will reflect that this is LTS release.

[karlism]

@RainbowHerbicides, do you know if there can be multiple Prometheus LTS releases in parallel?

[RainbowHerbicides]

@karlism I am not 100% sure but judging by their announcement and their schedule https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/RELEASE.md#release-schedule - current LTS (2.37.X) will be supported from July 2022 till January 31 2023, which is pretty short for LTS in my opinion. We can safely assume that they will bump next release (probably 2.42.x) to LTS and archive 2.37.X so they would not have to support more than 1 LTS releases. This is my assumption ofc and I can rise a ticket in their repo or mailing list to get some additional information

[RainbowHerbicides]

Tried asking in IRC and on Twitter - received 0 reply

[wywerne]

6 months : https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/release-cycle/ & https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.37.0 And this only concerns the server part

This could cause the repository to be split into three parts (lts, release, common)