Thanks Hans,
Yes of course this is only Apache OFBiz policy...
Jacques
From: "Hans Bakker" <mailingl...@antwebsystems.com>
When you do not get a response in a reasonable time. I would suggest to
ahead with the subject as you proposed.
In general this is a fair statement, in practice providers will support
the customers independent of the version they use?
Regards,
Hans
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 06:41 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
I can't believe nobody is interested in this?
Jacques
From: "Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
> I'd simply suggest to not support releases older than 4 years... This would
be a perfect timing for R4.0 (was in 2007) that we
> can't reasonnably no longer support and is a simple policy anybody can
remember easily
>
> So we could annonce that officialy has did Tomcat team below, opinions?
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd suggest that we define a simple official policy about supported releases. There are still people asking for support on
>> 4.0.
>> But this version is more than 4 years old and I think any of the commiters
still use it regularly and want to support it. For
>> instance it's now hard to backport things there.
>>
>> We could take Tomcat policy as an example:
>>
>>> The Apache Tomcat team announces that support for Apache Tomcat 5.5.x
>>> will end on 30 September 2012.
>>>
>>> This means that after 30 September 2012:
>>> - releases from the 5.5.x branch are highly unlikely
>>> - bugs affecting only the 5.5.x branch will not be addressed
>>> - security vulnerability reports will not be checked against the 5.5.x
>>> branch
>>>
>>> Three months later (i.e. after 31 December 2012)
>>> - the 5.5.x download pages will be removed
>>> - the latest 5.5.x release will be removed from the mirror system
>>> - the 5.5.x branch in svn will move from /tomcat/tc5.5.x to
>>> /tomcat/archive/tc5.5.x
>>> - the links to the 5.5.x documentation will be removed from
>>> tomcat.apache.org
>>> - The bugzilla project for 5.5.x will be made read-only
>>>
>>> Note that all 5.5.x releases will always be available from the archive.
>>>
>>> It is anticipated that the final 5.5.x release will be made shortly
>>> before 30 September 2012.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>
>
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