It is slightly different: Nick disabled some of the versions BEFORE 3.17
and only 3.17-DEV, so 3.17-FINAL is still available in the list, see
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=POI

So users can still report bugs on 3.17 specifically.

Dominik.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:59 AM Javen O'Neal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just to verify (I'm in agreement), by disabling 3.17-FINAL from new bugs,
> that means we are discontinuing support for the 3.17 code branch. If we
> need to create a bug against 3.17 for a security update, we'll need to ask
> Nick to temporarily allow new bugs for 3.17-FINAL. In a pinch (Nick is
> busy), the unspecified tag is still available.
>
> Any users choosing to stay on 3.x will be implicitly discouraged from
> contributing patches and code snippets on bz.apache.org for each other,
> since they'll have to use the unspecified tag. Here I'm acknowledging that
> our bugzilla isn't always used by contributors to get a dev to upstream
> their change, but sometimes to provide a quick fix for another user or to
> post an idea that requires elaboration to become committable.
>
> Sounds fair to me.
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 13:20 Andreas Beeker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 9/6/18 8:27 PM, Nick Burch wrote:
> > >
> > > I've gone for
> > >  * 4.0.0-FINAL
> > >  * 4.0.x-dev
> > >
> > > Hopefully that makes sense, sorts well, and ought to be fairly easy to
> > maintain?
> >
> > +1 ... thank you
> >
> > Andi
> >
> >
> >
>

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