Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
On Nov 4, 2008, at 13:59 , Hanno Schlichting wrote:
If I'm not mistaken there was something about every release being supported two years after its initial release in those discussions.
But time went on, we haven't sticked to a time-based release schedule and those policies haven't been written down or been followed.
2 years sounds fine to me.
By that reasoning, we can stop supporting 2.8 (2.8.0 was released June 11, 2005) and 2.9 (2.9.0 was released January 9, 2006). However, if we were strict it would also mean EOL for 2.10 (2.10.0 was released October 4, 2006). But we can be lenient...
+1 to retiring 2.8, 2.9. Of course, if people still want to maintain it, they should be welcome to. I just don't think we should have to merge bugfixes to those branches anymore. Maintaining 2.10, 2.11, trunk seems perfectly acceptable and it's plenty to deal with.