On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org>wrote:
> > >> 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. > Not to hijack the thread purposely, but it's hard not to point out what a great example of "poor attitude" this is, as was called out in a thread here on django-developers a while back[0]. Since you'd rather not have discussions *post facto*, I guess it doesn't hurt to be timely. Cheers, AT [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/DUQtBrM2iTs/discussion -- 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.
