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" <[email protected]> >> 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. > >
