On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:44 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > --- Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Sorry for nitpicking, but I'd avoid "limited developer time". It confirms some people's wrong belief that open source depends only on unpaid volunteer developers working in their spare time. You don't need to justify the fact that you don't support very old products. That's normal. Of course, if there was a big demand to support the old products, someone would do it, for the profit. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
