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- Critical - bug causes the system or service to crash and there is no work around for the function; or the issue is deemed a critical level CVE (per CVSS)
- High - bug for a feature/function does not work and there is no work around for the function; or the issue is deemed a high-level CVE
- Medium - bug makes it more difficult to complete a function/task but there is a work around for the issue; or the issue is deemed a medium level CVE
- Low - bug is cosmetic in nature (examples: a misspelling in a UI or sort order error) and does not impede any function or task; or the issue is deemed a low-level CVE.
WG Work group chairpersons, in consultation with the release managerczar, will coordinate work on LTS bug fixes and make determinations on new LTS minor releases or patches. Disagreements on whether a bug fix should be made on an LTS release and/or on the need for a new LTS minor release or patch will be adjudicated by the EdgeX TSC. While a dot or patch release update to the LTS release is typically reserved for critical or high issues/bugs, the TSC reserves the right to make a patch or dot release on-demand for any bug/security issue discovered.
When the EdgeX community creates a new minor release that stems from an LTS release as part of its normal 6-month cadence, the new dot release is not an LTS release by default. The EdgeX TSC can designate any release LTS, but a release is not LTS by default extension of the prior release. So, for example, if version 2.1 is designated an LTS release, version 2.2 created in as part of the normal cadence six months after 2.1 is not automatically an LTS by extension.
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