On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:11 -0400, Kirk M wrote: > Ubuntu WordPress? ;D So what, Lean concept and model was taken from Toyota's manufacturing (which is about cars), and now it's successfully implemented in software development (some claims it's better than Agile/Scrum)... and Ubuntu is far not the worst Open Source project from where we can learn stuff.
:) > > On 07/20/2009 02:08 PM, Stas SUSHKOV wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:35 +0000, Holly Doyne wrote: > >> From what I heard this weekend from Matt, there really is going to be > >> nothing more > >> done for the "legacy." No one apparently is downloading it; the security > >> improvements > >> really can't be reversed engineered without a lot of work, especially if > >> they are dependent > >> on some of the later work (and server updates). > >> > >> Think of it as the time line being moved up. There is also the issue that > >> if you don't have > >> anyone who wants to adopt it and spend their time on 2.0 as apposed to the > >> newer versions, > >> there is not going to be much work put into it. > >> > >> The reasons I can see for not upgrading would primarily be lack of server > >> support for more > >> recent PHP and mySQL.. > >> > >> What you might want to do is assist them in updating to at least 2.5.... > >> Not surprisingly, I have > >> found several holdouts wind up really liking widgets and some of the new > >> hooks. > > > > It's a good question. > > As for me, the only lack of feature WordPress has, is it's stability. I > > mean there will always be updates and features wp-devs will want to > > implement, and thanks god they brought that automatic upgrade tool. But > > when it comes to stability and long term support, it's hard for me (as > > an example) to recommend the WordPress to a user who doesn't care too > > much about features and is looking for something he will afford > > forgetting to update. > > > > WordPress wins a lot from plugins, and the community itself are the > > plugin users and developers, but this can turn into bad if somebody uses > > a plugin which is no more (or lazily) supported by its author on a new > > WordPress release. > > > > I remember I had to wait weeks until qTranslate developer will commit > > the fix to the broken plugin's wysiwyg integration. And this is all > > cause WordPress HAS NO legacy or LTS (search for Ubuntu LTS for > > reference) branches. > > > > I dream of a WordPress snapshot developed as a stable/legacy branch, > > which I will prefer using for my projects instead of going upstream with > > cutting edge features and the risk of getting left behind when it comes > > to plugins. > > > > P.S.: I raised this question some time ago, but it seems that not too > > many people care about it. > > > > Happy hacking :) > > > >> > >> -Holly > >> www.proseknitic.de > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> Von: g30rg3_x<[email protected]> > >> An: [email protected] > >> Gesendet: Montag, den 20. Juli 2009, 15:49:00 Uhr > >> Betreff: [wp-testers] Whats up with the legacy 2.0 branch? > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> What is the current status of the legacy 2.0 branch? > >> Seems that the WordPress team already deleted support for this branch > >> but i can't find information about when this happen and why?.... > >> > >> Isn't this branch the one that promised "security and critical fixes > >> until 2010"?[1]... > >> Is it cause debian lenny moved on to 2.5.x?[2]... > >> > >> Sorry but i just want clarification of this issue cause some people > >> are still using the legacy branch and they don't want to move on up > >> the latest stable for his own personal matters so i guess is better > >> ask here if there gonna be a complete drop over the support of the > >> legacy 2.0 branch or well another branch will be used as the legacy > >> branch. > >> > >> Links > >> [1] http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/ > >> [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/wordpress > >> > >> Regards > >> PS: Pardon me, my really bad english. > >> _________________________ > >> g30rg3_x > >> _______________________________________________ > >> wp-testers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> wp-testers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers -- () Campania Panglicii în ASCII /\ http://stas.nerd.ro/ascii/ _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
