@jospoortvliet what about moving the EOL date for a release not to the next release but one but to the first minor version of that release.
Now the support looks like the following:
11 -> EOL Release date of 13
I would sugget the following:
11 -> EOL Release date of 13.0.1
With the current cycle we (and probably other users) would have to update roughly every 5 months because we try to never update to a major Release directly but to the first minor (bugfix/security) release of a major version. The first version of a major release has often some nasty issues which are only found, once the release has gone public (I can’t back prove this statement with facts right now. This is my personal overall experience with software. Please correct me if this is not the case with NC).
If the support lasts to the first minor release of a major release we would have the opportunity to stay with a release easily for (roughly) up two 10 months. Of course there may be important security issues or bugfixes affecting us which may force us to update to every minor release. But from my experience the first minor release often contains the most critical updates to a new major release and after that the issues are mostly not so urgent to update again so soon.