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> 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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