On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Tim Allison wrote:
I think we should keep the 1.x branch open for security upgrades for a bit...middle of next year? I have _not_ been adding new features or even some bug fixes to 1.x, and I encourage people to migrate to 2.x.
We've seen quite a few queries from people struggling to upgrade in the last few weeks, so I think it's fair to say we must have a decent number of 1.x users still. For an example, Alfresco only upgraded a couple of weeks ago, and that's only on their main branch, so it'll be a while until it's in their releases.
I'm not keen on adding new features to 1.x, as that'll only encourage people to stick on the old one, but I wouldn't go as far as -1'ing other people's backports if they're still keen, at least for a while!
I'd be minded to say we probably need to keep on top of security stuff until something like September 2022, to give people just over a year to upgrade to 2.x. I'm minded to say we allow anyone keen to backport bugfixes etc until 3 months before that, but effectively discourage it for the last part to help encourage hold-outs to move. I think we should post something on the site about the planned EOL timeline, linking once more to the wonderful migrating resource on the wiki.
Nick
