--- Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
That's a fair point to make. But the fact is that we DO have limited time. If we didn't, all the bugs I filed over six months ago would be fixed. All the funky stuff we keep saying we'll work on would be done. 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
