On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
I'm not clear on how this helps. We don't know if there will be a
need to produce a 6.5 release, so there's no way to judge whether 6.4
should be designated "final" or not. The only logical answer is to do
so, which leaves a substantial chance that there will end up being
more than one "final" release on the 6.x line. That's not a
particularly desirable situation.
In fact, it's worse, because if 6.5 happens, it will probably be
because there were problems with 6.4 serious enough that we'd rather
people move to 6.5 anyway (at least for critical systems).
You are exactly right. I am proposing that we stop trying to guess
whether or not it is a final release.
A release will be supported until the next release + N months (N is
currently being debated I guess) or 24 months if there is no followup
release.
This effectively solves both of the problems you've very accurately
named above.
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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