[Idea]: Reducing the number of builds for 5.x

[mbentley]

Describe the Feature/Enhancement/Idea

In order to streamline what all is being built, I am going to be moving some of the versions of the Omada Controller in the 5.x versions to "Archived" status. That means that they will not be as regularly built as many of the other tags. Right now, there are 10 versions of 5.x that are available and in order to provide an upgrade path, having all 10 versions available just isn't necessary and I don't really see a reason why someone would need to stay on some of the older 5.x builds.

I'd like to figure out some sort of balance in terms of the number of builds to keep up to date as, for example, there are some issues with 5.12.x that people are having so keeping a few older versions around makes sense and if there are any dependencies on an upgrade path, keeping those dependencies around makes sense. From what I understand, you can upgrade from 4.1.x (or 4.4.x) to 5.x so there isn't a need to keep an up to date version of 5.0.x or 5.1.x, for example.

Curious if anyone would have any reasons why keeping regularly patched versions between 5.0.x and like 5.7.x be desirable. I'm thinking that keeping the last 3 versions patched would be sufficient.

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[mbentley]

Versions & Release dates:

# versions i will stop regularly patching
5.0   2022-01-20
5.1   2022-03-22
5.3   2022-05-07
5.4   2022-07-29
5.5   2022-08-22
5.6   2022-10-24
5.7   2022-11-21

# versions that will be patched regularly
5.8   2023-01-30
5.9   2023-03-21
5.12  2023-09-20