Am 25.01.2017 um 09:28 schrieb Dr. Michael Stehmann:
Am 24.01.2017 um 23:02 schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
I see some risk of confusion here. I mean, there is surely a set of
"privileged" platforms that are those for which we build and make
available releases from our download page: Windows, MacOS X, and Linux
variants. Then there is a set of "semi-privileged" platforms where we as
a project do not build releases, but that are aligned, submit patches
upstream and so on (and these would be OS/2 and FreeBSD).
I don't know which group should be considered "supported" and I don't
think that reading policy or sending tons of links would help much here.
For sure if OS/2 is supported then FreeBSD is too. But if a user expects
that "supported" means "available in binary form from the official site
for this platform" then neither is supported.
Personally, I don't have a strong opinion on this and I would be in
favor of adding FreeBSD to the "supported" list with the understanding
that this doesn't automatically imply that we will build a FreeBSD
release and make it available from the official site (we don't do that
for OS/2 either).
Ok, we have two categories of "support" for platformes:
1. those, for which we build and make available releases
2. those, that are aligned, submit patches upstream and so on
IMO we should communicate these two categories of "support" clearly, so
the user knows very well, what "support" in his/hers case mean.
before finding categories and its names, we need to make the several
attributes visible that describe "supported":
- Official binary downloads
- Maintained (bugfixes) by developers
- Improved (new feaures) by developers
- Regular builds from buildbots
- User help available by community
However, to do 2 things at once here are some possible name combinations
to differenciate:
- Primary - Secondary
- Full - Partly
- Premium - Normal
- Complete - Limited
Has anybody else additions for the lists?
Marcus
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