Re: Policy about supported releases

Posted by hans_bakker on Sep 06, 2011; 5:41am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Policy-about-supported-releases-tp3737925p3792627.html

When you do not get a response in a reasonable time. I would suggest to
ahead with the subject as you proposed.

In general this is a fair statement, in practice providers will support
the customers independent of the version they use?

Regards,
Hans

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 06:41 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> I can't believe nobody is interested in this?
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
> > 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
> >>
> >
> >

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