Hi
4.21 to 4.23 is two minor releases and only six months; nothing in terms
of a transition period.
It takes a change to 6.x to be two major releases.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 03/01/2023 14:24, Mickael Istria wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 3:12 PM Ed Willink <ed.will...@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought that Open Source was friendly; not a facilitator for a
proprietary business case.
Well, sometimes allowing contributors to make money from their work is
actually one way to try being friendly.
But indeed, if one wants to do that work for free, that's even friendlier.
My understanding of the disciplined deprecation was that two major
releases were required after an announcement, but since e6 is
impossibly
distant the platform has taken to breakage in minor versions.
Nonetheless I would expect two releases on the yearly cadence so
breakage within 18 months seems very wrong and to merit a
regression fix.
Deprecation announced in September 2021 (4.21)
Removal in January 2022 for upcoming 4.23, 2 major releases later
Breakage found January 2023 on 4.26, 3 major releases later
The cadence is described at https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse
Ultimately, there is a clear law of software development: unmaintained
software that no-one builds or updates against newer version of its
dependencies will die; only software that someone maintains actively
survives. It's not a matter of process here, but a matter of interest
in maintaining it. If some money can be found to boost interest from
someone in maintaining here, then we all win.
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