On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having managed the last few security releases for Django, I'll say it's > one of my least favorite tasks and I'm quite looking forward to dropping > support for 1.4 (which supports Python 2.5) and 1.6 (Python 2.6). But, if > there's sufficient interest that we could raise funds to support this > effort outside of my normal duties as Django fellow, there's a chance you > could convince me to continue backporting patches and preparing releases > for these versions. I'm not quite sure how the logistics of such an > arrangement would work, but just thought I'd throw the idea out there and > see if anyone is ready to back the effort financially. I'd want the > endorsement of the core team before finalizing anything. > Way, way, *way* back in the day, there was unofficial bugfix support for pre-magic-removal versions of Django run on the basis of "some people who need it step up and do all the work". It was solely done in SVN and never involved issuing new releases, so anyone running off the maintenance branch had to just update their checkout whenever a fix landed in it. I'm not opposed to allowing that again -- and in fact I was one of the people who did extended maintenance for pre-m-r Django because my employer at the time needed it -- but I think we should carefully consider how it's going to work before trying it, since we no longer have the ability to give partial commit bits. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAL13Cg8ywYzcZSp5WTKevZyA%2BMzHD4ouCu8aOwFdDo9u%3D_q2Tg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
