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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Are we advanced enough to have a formal policy of supporting two major >>> versions of Cayenne? If so, something we should put on the web site? > > Absolutely. I think we do need a clear road map and a page on the website > (not on wiki) listing what releases we support and what is the sunset date > for the oldest of those. When closing the Jiras against discontinued > releases, we need to make sure they do not affect newer releases, otherwise > such jiras simply need to be rescheduled. > > Now the question of what we put on that road map. here are my thoughts: > > 1. Now: I think that while 1.2 and 2.0 are the same thing, it helps if we > announce now that we stopped supporting 1.2. 1.2 adds to the effort of > preparing a release, as it is done from SourceForge infrastructure. So lets > encourage the upgrade. > > 2. Nearest future: I'd also like to discontinue support for 2.0.x at some > point (maybe after we have a 3.0.1 maintenance out). The upgrade path to 3.0 > is rather trivial, so I don't see why we should keep it around. Also the new > 3.1 doesn't support upgrade from 2.0, only from 3.0, so this is yet another > reason to encourage people to upgrade now to avoid pain in the future. > > Evgeny, you committed a bunch of fixes to the 2.0 branch, so maybe you can > give us your point of view on that. I am open to anything, including making > a 2.0.5 before announcing 2.0.x sunset, or keeping it around longer, but if > we have no good reasons to expect a 2.0.6, I'd rather we encourage our users > to upgrade to 3.0. > > Andrus > > > On May 11, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Michael Gentry wrote: >> >> 1.2 and 2.0 are the same release, though. Just different package spaces. >> >> >> On May 11, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You'll notice that I tagged the 1.2 release on the site as "archived" >>> that is to imply it is not going to get future updates. Should I close the >>> Jira tasks associated with it and should we send out a formal announcement >>> of the end of life of that version? >>> >>> Are we advanced enough to have a formal policy of supporting two major >>> versions of Cayenne? If so, something we should put on the web site? >>> >>> Ari >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --------------------------> >>> Aristedes Maniatis >>> GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A >> > >
