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" <[email protected]> > > 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" <[email protected]> > >> 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 > >> > > > > -- Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz Alternative ofbiz website: http://www.ofbiz.info http://www.antwebsystems.com : Quality services for competitive rates.
