On 05/25/2016 05:11 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:07 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net > <mailto:wr...@rowe-clan.net>> wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Gregg Smith <g...@gknw.net > <mailto:g...@gknw.net>> wrote: > > On 5/16/2016 11:03 AM, Eric Covener wrote: > > One shortcoming of a 12 month countdown is that some folks will > not be > able to plan/pitch/budget/execute a migration in 12 calendar > months > because of bad timing. > > As long as we're not committing to releases in this window, I'd > personally be okay with pushing out to 18 months re: the later > feedback in this thread. I don't feel too strongly about> 12 > months > notice, but I will still have a 2.2-derivative in support beyond > that > window anyway. > > > We should just pick a date right now (say 31/12/2017) and begin > announcing (website/download page/mail lists) it > now. Include that one last release will come out before the end of > the year and it will be patches only after > final release and until EOL date. That is 18 and a half months to EOL > with a final release within 6 and a half. > > > To square this circle... I had expect that the 'final release' for httpd > 2.2 would > be based on the need for a security fix release, and expected that this > may > happen as many times over that year long period as were necessary. > > > So let's try this... would 2.2.x maintainers and PMC folks please answer this > poll -if- you have an intention to help throughout the wind-down of 2.2.x, > since > this is all predicated on having committed-committers to participate. This > isn't > to say folks refuse to participate after the time period you offer, but for > how long > you are personally prepared to participate. [If you aren't a 2.2.x legacy > branch > participant, testing RCs or applying backports, then no response is needed.] > *) I intend to help maintain/test 2.2.x releases over the next [_12___] mos *) I intend to backport/review 2.2.x security patches over the next [_12___] mos
Regards Rüdiger
