http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Policy-about-supported-releases-tp3737925p3794258.html
Do we even have a policy about supporting releases, let alone a policy about which releases to support?
In other words, what can a user of Apache OFBiz expect to get as part of this "official" support?
> Thanks Hans,
>
> Yes of course this is only Apache OFBiz policy...
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Hans Bakker" <
[hidden email]>
>> 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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