On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 03:24 -0500, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > > Because the project is incapable of releasing more than two minor > subversions, per year, at present.
on holiday with a dog slow 3G vpn tonight, so I'll be brief (and wont see any replies until I return on Sunday...) I have never agreed with any "release often" principle, a project that releases often (more than a few times a year) to me says "immature instability" compared to a project that releases once or twice a year (barring critical bug resolutions) - IOW, release when necessary not just because its a "cool thing to do". Take dovecot for instance, we stayed on the stable 1.2 series for more than a year after it was EOL, because its 2.0.x kept having fixes and releases every couple of weeks for a while, admins dont like that, it gives them no warm feelings towards stability. WRT slow take up of 2.4.x, I agree, the incentive (as was discussed 2 years or so ago) was to EOL 2.0, and what needs doing now, is starting the countdown to EOL of 2.2 - if there's no incentive to move, twenty years of history proves most admins wont.
