Joost Andrae escribió:
Re-post from releases list
Hi,
I'd like to inform you that no further legacy 1.1.5 builds will be
uploaded to the mirrors. The last build for that release was Spanish
(es). Let's focus our efforts and resources on recent developer
snapshots, betas and RCs.
I'd like to ask for a removal guideline (policy) for discontinued
builds and would like to start the discussion here. Maybe there's a
volunteer who's willing to host discontinued builds instead.
We, as Spanish NLC leads, wish to explain our decission for moving 1.1.5
legacy builds to the mirror network, as it seems to have launched this
discussion.
First of all, we want to clarify that we don't waste any time or
resources testing now 1.1.5, it has been used widely for so many time,
that we know it is a safe build to distribute. So we think it deserved
the same status that other localized 1.1.5 builds have, being hosted on
the mirror network, so they could be easily available for spanish users.
We couldn't approve 1.1.5 when it was first released because we didn't
have no QA team, and nobody understood the QA process at that moment as
to be in charge of QA leading role (and still we don't think we fully
understand it now). We see that QA processes are difficult to understand
at first sight, only when you're involved in it, you start to know how
it works.
IMHO, and I think Alexandro shares this point of view of mine, 1.1.5
can't be labeled as discontinued as you propose, mainly because we have
a big number of users who still use it, and users that still look for
it. And as you know, on 01-02-2007 a security update was released, so
how to call it discontinued when it is still maintained.
We really need 1.1.5 available, because in many latin-american countries
(Argentina amongst them) our reality is that there are still too many
old-hardware based PC's deployed. And 1.1.5 still behaves acceptably on
them, where 2.x versions works very slow because of memory restrictions.
I know there are problems of disk space on mirrors, and we will accept a
removal of these builds if it is decided that way by our QA community,
but have in mind that we will need a time frame, as long as we have to
look where we can upload them to assure availability for our users. We
have a hard week already trying to find that build for a user that ask
for it, and couldn't find it.
Best regards,
Santiago Bosio
Spanish QA co-leader
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