Hi,
With the second criteria "Vendor Support",
M$ will dictate easily the openssl roadmap (?!?!?),
and, indirectly,
will force any openssl win-XX users to migrate to their last wonderful
products.
Clearly, above "common sense", "Vendor support" is not a proper criteria
to offer something like openssl or anything else to a platform.
Criteria such as "platform still in use" is more appropriate.
And I do not think either that "devteam wish or <<present>> skills",
should be also the limit of "openssl availability/compatibility/support
on some platforms" :
If the devteam miss some skills, they can -at least- call the community.
I think that, through some diving in the forum posts history, it is
quite easy to identify some skilled people...
I am still, regularly, offering wce support, for free, and I am glad if
this can help the team and the community.
Isn't it, finally, one of the purpose of community projects : bringing
skills together for better products...
Regards
Pierre
Le 01/07/2014 11:50, Ben Laurie a écrit :
On 1 July 2014 06:52, Zoltan Arpadffy <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I see that Rich is doing a fantastic job by cleaning up the backlog...
I absolutely agree that very old releases cannot be supported, but what about
the platforms?
I thought until now, that as long there are developers who are willing to
develop for a certain platform and there is some community interest in using
that - the platform will be supported as odd might it be in the Windows and
Linux dominated World.
I just started to wonder, will soon come the time when my patches will be also refused
with the "unsupported platform" comment?
Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on "supported platform":
* Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use
* Vendor support
* Available to the dev team, i.e. the dev team have access to a
suitable environment in which to test builds and deal with tickets and
issues
* Dev team ownership, i.e. at least one person on the team is willing
to take some responsibility for a platform
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