On May 31, 2012, at 12:45, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: >>> >> This policy is more a result of the community's capabilities than anything >> else. The decision to not ship all fixes to 1.6 users is a compromise. >> We were shipping all kinds of bugfixes for 1.6 users between March 2009 >> and October 2011. That is a long time, and as a result the 1.6 line is >> now very stable. I would say that it is a good fit for enterprise-class >> long-term support systems for this reason. > > Yes, it doesn't seem that bad today. I'm just pointing out that there > will very likely be a large user base continuing to run some version > of 1.6.x for 5 to 10 years in the future.
That's fine, if you don't mind running old software its developers will not support anymore. Subversion 1.6.x will become unsupported when Subversion 1.8.0 is released. That doesn't mean it will stop working, but it does mean if you report a problem against it at that time, we'll just tell you to upgrade to a supported version first.
