On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Phillip Moore
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would think for any closed operating system platform, that we should drop
> support in sync with the vendor.  If Microsoft has stopped supporting W2K,
> then this seems like a no-brainer to me.  So do we.    For open source
> operating systems, then the same thing applies, assuming there's a governing
> body or community for that particular OS.
> Perhaps this is really a question that should be address by the OpenAFS
> elders?  ( I miss you guys... :-P )

The elders aren't going to cut people off without asking questions first.
So, ...

> If we don't have a clear policy on determining when to drop a platform, it
> costs us dearly, as supporting these "dead" platforms prevents us from
> modernizing the environment like this.

A hard and fast policy is likely to come back and bite us. Flexibility
is better; We
are, after all, an open source project.
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