http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Policy-about-supported-releases-tp3737925p3795463.html
I do as much as I can, but for instance it's a while now I don't do it for R4.0.
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> Do we even have a policy about supporting releases, let alone a policy about which releases to support?
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> In other words, what can a user of Apache OFBiz expect to get as part of this "official" support?
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> -David
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> On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
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>> Thanks Hans,
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>> Yes of course this is only Apache OFBiz policy...
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>> Jacques
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>> 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.
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>>> 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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