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. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
