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[beam-site] 01/03: Update to LTS wording to remove every Nth release clause.

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commit 2731a2353464407cdefd3e09b8165eb00ef046e5
Author: Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Aug 16 10:52:42 2018 -0700

    Update to LTS wording to remove every Nth release clause.
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 src/community/policies.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/community/policies.md b/src/community/policies.md
index a553e76..9674c31 100644
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ This page contains a list of major policies agreed upon by the Apache Beam commu
 
 Apache Beam makes minor releases every 6 weeks. Apache Beam has a [calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=0p73sl034k80oob7seouanigd0%40group.calendar.google.com) for cutting the next release branch. After a release branch is cut, the community works quickly to finalize that release.
 
-Apache Beam aims to make 8 releases in a 12 month period. To accommodate users with longer upgrade cycles, some of these releases will be tagged as long term support (LTS) releases. Starting with the 2.7.0 release, every fourth release will be a LTS release. LTS releases receive patches to fix major issues for 12 months, starting from the release's initial release date. LTS releases are considered deprecated after 12 months. Non-LTS releases do not receive patches and are considered depr [...]
+Apache Beam aims to make 8 releases in a 12 month period. To accommodate users with longer upgrade cycles, some of these releases will be tagged as long term support (LTS) releases. The community will mark some releases as LTS releases (based on the factors such as the number of LTS releases currently in flight, and whether the accumulated feature set from the last LTS provides significant value to upgrade). There will be at least one new LTS release in a 12 month period. LTS releases re [...]
 
 It is up to the Apache Beam community to decide whether an identified issue is a major issue that warrants a patch release. Some examples of major issues are high severity security issues and high risk data integrity issues.