On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Chris Wilson <ch...@aptivate.org> wrote:
> I would love to see support extended for a bit longer after deprecation. This is a matter of resources; we struggle to maintain security releases against 3 simultaneous releases (e.g. right now 1.4.x, 1.5.x, and the up-coming 1.6). Adding a fourth probably isn't possible without a ton of help. > We have apps in production running Django 1.3. There won't be any security > fixes. If there's a critical vulnerability, we may have to do a lot of > unpaid work to either backport the fix, I have to say I find this kinda hilarious: you *know* it's a lot of work to backport stuff, and you'd like *us* to do that work instead of you. > I'm not asking anyone to do my job for me (I hope) but it would be really > nice to have something like 3 years of support for core infrastructure like > Django, that's really painful to upgrade, and even more painful to replace. > It would certainly help me to sleep better at night. > But you are, actually, asking us to work for you. And we're happy to do it! This is what open source is all about; volunteering to do work (often rather thankless work) to help other people sleep at night. But there's a limit to the free time we have, and there's a limit to the amount of scut work you can expect a volunteer community to do for you. Look at it this way: you run 1.3 still, so you have a personal vested interest in backporting work. If *you* don't have the time to do it, what makes you think that *we* do? Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
