--- Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:58 +0200, Andre Klapper > wrote: > [snip] > > perhaps combining it to something like this?: > > 'However, you are using an old version, which > Gnome developers are no > > longer working on, so unfortunately there will not > be any bug fixes > > for > > the version that you use.' > [snip] > > That's just giving the user bad news and letting him > think he's stuck > with it. Maybe we could add something like: > "By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could > receive bugfixes and > new functionality. You may need to upgrade your > Linux distribution to > obtain a newer version of GNOME." > > Also, I'd prefer to change > "However, you are using an old version" > to > "However, you are using a version that is too old" > or similar, > so we don't encourage people (journalists) to say > "Look, as soon as > they've shipped it, they stop supporting it. This > why open source yadda > yadda yadda wrong."
Is there a standard policy, at least across the gnome desktop components, of when to stop maintaining? The wording I suggested would be easier if we could say: "To make best use of limited developer time, versions more than x years old are not supported." -- and then the text you suggest about upgrading. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
