We've kept the stable release for people to use, calling it backward compatibility. But it's not obvious to users that it's dead. We've written this in a couple places, but in practice many people will not notice, and try to use stable, which will most likely give a bad impression of the state of the project.
Therefore, I'd like to propose this radical change: Rename it to 'stable-dead'. It will break what we called backward compatibility, but here, it's a meaningless concept. Consider these points: - people who'll try to update from stable, will get errors - but there will be no updates anyway - people who are new, will see that it's dead and won't subscribe to it, unless they want to subscribe to a dead catalog So I see no real loss in doing that, and I see a gain in that the death of stable will be impossible to miss. With time, we'll introduce stable by creating a symlink from 'stable' to 'dublin', but not earlier than 6 or 12 months after breaking the old 'stable' directory. Thoughts? Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
