I think that the questions about when you usually update to a LTS or non-LTS release are important and relevant, but that they also miss an important aspect: why people wait as long as they do (or do not wait). For some people, the desire to update to an LTS release or even a non-LTS release may be held up by the need for a package that is not yet available in that release. I know that the time needed to get MoveIt! into Kinetic held me back on an older release much longer than I wanted to be. It’s too late for this survey now but next time I think a question about why people upgrade when they do should be asked to find out how many are actually waiting on a dependency and how many are waiting for some other reason (product development cycle, for example).
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