[hibernate-dev] Re: Hibernate ORM 5: end-of-life and upgrading

2022-05-31 Thread Steve Ebersole
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:18 AM Imre Jonk via hibernate-dev < hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> wrote: > > I think the reality is that people who use software that has been > declared end-of-life by their suppliers often don't backport it > themselves. I've unfortunately seen enough cases of this

[hibernate-dev] Re: Hibernate ORM 5: end-of-life and upgrading

2022-05-31 Thread Imre Jonk via hibernate-dev
Hi Steve, I have a feeling that there is a slight misunderstanding here, for which I'm sorry. Please allow me to clarify some things. On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 07:31 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote: > The reality is that we are a very small team - it is simply not > feasible to maintain that many

[hibernate-dev] Re: Hibernate ORM 5: end-of-life and upgrading

2022-05-31 Thread Steve Ebersole
The reality is that we are a very small team - it is simply not feasible to maintain that many branches[1]. You are not asking about "time to upgrade" anyway, in my opinion. You are asking about removing the need to upgrade, which is very different. Us stopping support for 5.6 does not mean you

[hibernate-dev] Re: Hibernate ORM 5: end-of-life and upgrading

2022-05-31 Thread Imre Jonk via hibernate-dev
On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 09:35 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote: > There is not a hard date.  Not in the immediate future is the best > I can say at the moment. Thanks for your reply, Steve. It would be nice if 5.6 continues to receive bugfixes for some time. That would allow us to further validate our