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 > > > > > > >
