Hi4.21 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/eclipseUltimately, 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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