I think we should start by dropping the oldest from maintenance ASAP. People will likely only update once CVEs start accumating on that non-manintened release. I'd be OK only supporting the current release.
Gary On Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 04:18 Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > We currently have 3 active branches: > - 2.0.X started in 2008 > - 2.1.X started in 2019 > - 2.2.X started in 2022 > > It costs a lot to maintain those three branches, especially when it > comes to backport issues. I have spent a hell of time managing CVE's in > late spring, with some backport to those old branches. > > I'm not sure we want to still maintain them. > > OTOH, the downloads stats are quite surprising: > > 2.2.X represent 57% of the monthly downloads, 2.1.X 9,82% and 2.0.X 30% > (and FTR 1.1.X represents 7%(!!) of all the downloads. Quite good for a > 18 years old defunct version...) > > So what do you think? Should we focus on 2.2.X, and tell the world we > will stop maintaining the two other branches? (we can also offer a grace > period...) > > Thanks! > > -- > ------------------------ > Emmanuel Lécharny > [email protected] > [email protected] > ------------------------ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
