Re: Policy about supported releases

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on Sep 04, 2011; 10:52pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Policy-about-supported-releases-tp3737925p3790090.html

I'd simply suggest to not support releases older than 4 years... This would be a perfect timing for R4.0 (was in 2007) that we can't
reasonnably no longer support and is a simple policy anybody can remember easily

So we could annonce that officialy has did Tomcat team below, opinions?

Jacques

From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>

> Hi,
>
> I'd suggest that we define a simple official policy about supported releases. There are still people asking for support on 4.0.
> But this version is more than 4 years old and I think any of the commiters still use it regularly and want to support it. For
> instance it's now hard to backport things there.
>
> We could take Tomcat policy as an example:
>
>> The Apache Tomcat team announces that support for Apache Tomcat 5.5.x
>> will end on 30 September 2012.
>>
>> This means that after 30 September 2012:
>> - releases from the 5.5.x branch are highly unlikely
>> - bugs affecting only the 5.5.x branch will not be addressed
>> - security vulnerability reports will not be checked against the 5.5.x
>> branch
>>
>> Three months later (i.e. after 31 December 2012)
>> - the 5.5.x download pages will be removed
>> - the latest 5.5.x release will be removed from the mirror system
>> - the 5.5.x branch in svn will move from /tomcat/tc5.5.x to
>> /tomcat/archive/tc5.5.x
>> - the links to the 5.5.x documentation will be removed from
>> tomcat.apache.org
>> - The bugzilla project for 5.5.x will be made read-only
>>
>> Note that all 5.5.x releases will always be available from the archive.
>>
>> It is anticipated that the final 5.5.x release will be made shortly
>> before 30 September 2012.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jacques
>