Re: Policy about supported releases

Posted by Bilgin Ibryam-2 on Sep 12, 2011; 10:20am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Policy-about-supported-releases-tp3737925p3807009.html

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Jacques Le Roux
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> In my mind, it's only about bug fixes backport, nothing else.
> I do as much as I can, but for instance it's a while now I don't do it for
> R4.0.
> I want to make that clear and have a reference for users...

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> Jacques
>
> From: "David E Jones" <[hidden email]>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

yes, I think it is safe to assume "Lazy Consensus" in this case

>>>>
>>>> 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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