>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:50, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> IMHO, the general rule is supporting the current and previous release. We >>> have referred to that rule in the past. I'm not sure that is written down >>> anywhere though. I think this is a good policy either way.
Overall I agree (is this a+0.7 ?) but people need to be given time to upgrade between versions. Some projects and commercial vendors provide support for a 6 month rolling window to enable this. From a sysadmin point of view this would be preferable. >>> We planned to have 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 come out at roughly the same time. As a >>> result, I didn't bother backporting the required patches to the 0.11.x >>> line, effectively ending support. Now 1.0.2 is out and 1.1.0 isn't just yet >>> (I hope soon though) so we effectively broke the rule. I'll look into >>> backporting the required patches to 0.11.x so people can at least do manual >>> fixes. >>> >>> Does that sound like a sensible scenario? >> >> Sounds good to me (in particular the policy). > > Me too. Yup - solves the issue above neatly. A+ Dave
