Maybe you could decide to support last 2 releases. i.e. 5.0.x and 4.3.x instead of a zillion older branches. And 6-8 months definitely happened in 2007/2008. During v1.x and 2.x series.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2015 18:34:20 Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> The reason being, is that in times past VirtualBox team did a major >> release every 6-8 months, while we stuck with v4.3.x for almost 2 years. >> V4.3 was fairly good, but people want some innovation. > > We never did a major release every 6-8 months. > > 4.0: 12/2010 > 4.1: 07/2011 (8 months) > 4.2: 09/2012 (14 months) > 4.3: 10/2013 (13 months) > 5.0: 07/2015 (21 months) > > It would be much easier if we could drop supporting of older major releases > quickly after a new major release but that's not possible. Support of older > major releases takes a _lot_ of time. > > And even if it took 21 months for 5.0 after 4.3 was released that does not > mean that there is no innovation. The changes during the 4.3.x releases > cycle were _not_ only code shuffling and minor bug fixes... > > Frank > -- > Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. > GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that > you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. > Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. > https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
