My apologies in advance. But its hard to let things like this stand on a public forum. I'll resort to the facts only.
2008/9/30 Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't get me wrong, as I tried to tell Geoff one day. It is not about having > to pay for support, its about reducing the support types that are received. > If one reduces the amount of support coming into the product team, then the > product team could provide better support to older releases. > > Currently once a product is released with Farcry CMS, the oldeer versions > have a poor support framework. Patches are non existant, for older versions. > Unless you keep up with the trunk, the support and patches only make it to > current releases only. So bad luck if your update cycle from the client > doesn't match farcry. While we can always do better, the following is a quick report of version history from the farcry community bug tracker of vetted milestone releases (ie. qa'd collections of enhancements and bug fixes): 5.0.2 (Maintenance release for 5.0) 13/Aug/08 5.0.1 (Maintenance release for 5.0) 10/Jul/08 FarCry 5.0 (Fortress: Security, user directory, policy, permissions, i18n, workflow) 02/Jun/08 4.0.11 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 01/Sep/08 4.0.10 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 20/Mar/08 4.0.9 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 18/Nov/07 4.0.8 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 11/Sep/07 4.0.7 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 30/Aug/07 4.0.6 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 26/Jul/07 4.0.5 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 18/Jul/07 4.0.4 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 12/Jul/07 4.0.3 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 21/Jun/07 4.0.2 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 15/Jun/07 4.0.1 (Maintenance release for 4.0) 29/May/07 FarCry 4.0 (Codename: Gonzalas) 30/Mar/07 3.0.3 (Maintenance release for 3.0) 11/Sep/08 3.0.2 (Maintenance release for 3.0) 30/May/07 3.0.1 (Maintenance release for 3.0) 17/Mar/06 FarCry 3.0 (Codename: Glamour) 31/Oct/05 Active development on the version 3.0 product release has ceased for some years now. However, we continue to field paid support requests on the 3.0 platform and support community contributions to the repo. Note there are "updaters" to assist in the move from 3.x -> 4.x -> 5.x. Ongoing maintenance for 4.x and 5.x will continue for the foreseeable future -- and probably for as long as have clients operating on these platforms. For those that have an interest in such things, you can track the issue list, and its schedules here: http://bugs.farcrycms.org/ And up to the *minute* code changes here: http://fisheye.farcrycms.org/browse/core Note that the trunk is currently the mainline for 5.1 development. Branches for all product releases back to the original 1.0 release in April 2003 are available to all in the repository for those that need the reference, or the latest code line for a specific version ahead of the milestone release. Hopefully that adds a touch of reality to the thread. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313258 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
