Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
>
>> There has been some discussion of making a project policy of dropping
>> support for old releases after five years. Should we consider formally
>> instituting that?
>>
>
> The community consensus I recall was three versions only. Anything beyond
> that would be up to the vendors.
>
> Mind you, I don't know what EDB guarentees but the Sun folks could end up
> patching everything back to 8.1 for the next 5 years depending on customer
> demand. So I think 5 years will be a reality for us for the conceivable
> future.
>
>
I don't know that we came up with a highly specific policy. My
recollection was something like "Support would be maintained for n years
(or possibly releases), after which we could discontinue support at any
time if bugs were unpatchable."
The burden of maintaining back releases isn't really all that great, ISTM.
I have no objection to cutting a release and declaring it final (with a
possible exception for security fixes).
cheers
andrew
