On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
It also doesn't seem reasonable to expect that decision to be rushed
in
advance of the necessary evaluation of the success or otherwise of
both
6.4 and 7.1 releases - especially when we're talking about these being
only a month or so away anyway.
Let me try to say this one other way. If you want businesses or
anyone really who doesn't have unlimited time and energy to help
evaluate, test, etc this release prior to it coming out, shouldn't you
make it worth their while? Supporting 6.3 for longer than 6.4 doesn't
make it worth anyone's time or attention to evaluate 6.4. Which
means that it becomes significantly more likely that 6.4 will ship
with a major problem that could or should have been caught in pre-
release testing.
The current policy of "not deciding until after the fact" for support
periods could in fact be implemented with a reasonable policy that
doesn't require a psychic to determine the likely failure or not of a
release. I've proposed one. I'm sure that there are better ways to
say it, but I'd really appreciate it if you guys would take the
problem seriously.
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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