I take your point Fabian, paid support is certainly out there. But right now I'm making the case that ending support for PHP 5.1.x while it is still in wide deployment in a major linux distribution with no upgrade yet available in that distribution just doesn't look good - it implies Symfony is too bleeding edge to trust on your production site, you might get left high and dry the next time... it's bad marketing for Symfony. Especially since educational institutions are great incubators for web development and they tend to use CentOS a lot.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Fabian Lange<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I also cannot speak for Fabien/Sensio, but as far as I understand you > you are saying that your business needs symfony 1.0 longer? > Perhaps you should consider then buying some extra support via > sensiolabs.com/en/support > > Fabian > > On Aug 8, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Stefan Koopmanschap wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Just today I responded to a discussion on symfony-users concerning the >> end of support for symfony 1.0. Now, I can not speak for >> Fabien/Sensio, but I've posed the idea in that discussion that if >> there are people willing to step up to the task, even though official >> support gets dropped, a community effort could be started to keep >> having community support for symfony 1.0 for an extended period. With >> it being a community effort allows the core team to focus on the newer >> versions of symfony, while the old version does not just disappear. It >> would need to be well-organized, but I could put this into my job as >> Community Manager to arrange a small community team for the community >> support of sf1.0 >> >> Just an idea >> >> Stefan >> >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Tom Boutell<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Red Hat Enterprise 6 is expected "in the first quarter of 2010." Many >>> large institutions are running on RHEL or CentOS, and those doing >>> work >>> for them really don't have the option of moving to PHP 5.2 at this >>> time. But Symfony 1.0 support is ending in January of 2010. >>> >>> How about extending Symfony 1.0 support until the release of RHEL6? >>> Or, since Symfony shouldn't be stuck accommodating Red Hat forever, >>> until April 1st, 2010? >>> >>> Personally I fire up new servers on Ubuntu, not Red Hat, but it's >>> very, very common for this to be out of the developer's control. >>> Maintaining support until RHEL6 appears would show a deeper >>> commitment >>> to the success of Symfony developers. >>> >>> -- >>> Tom Boutell >>> P'unk Avenue >>> 215 755 1330 >>> punkave.com >>> window.punkave.com >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
