Hello all, I think the most important thing is to have a policy and make clear to end users what it is. I don't care about 0.11.x personally since we're still on 0.10.1 in production (which has been rock solid for us I might add) and are probably upgrading to 1.0.2 soon (or 1.1.0 if that's released before we start our upgrade project), I was just wondering what the support policy was. This seems like a good time to agree on *something* and communicate this plan, but I'll leave that to you dev@ people.
Thanks, Nils. ________________________________________ Van: Jan Lehnardt [[email protected]] Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2011 21:50 Aan: [email protected] CC: Nils Breunese Onderwerp: Re: Supported versions? On 31 Jan 2011, at 21:09, Noah Slater wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2011, at 15:05, Nils Breunese wrote: > >> I saw CouchDB 1.0.2 fixes a security issue. Am I right that 0.11.x won't get >> this fix? Is there an official statement somewhere on what 'series' of >> releases are currently supported? > > I would have said that anything we list on the downloads.html page is a > support version. That means that those versions should receive back-ports for > bugs and security issues. I notice that this has not happened for the 1.0.2 > release and the subsequent security announcement. I can only infer that the > pre-1.0 line is no longer supported and should be removed from this page. > > Thoughts, anyone? It looks we dropped the ball here. Here's how I think it went: IMHO, the general rule is supporting the current and previous release. We have referred to that rule in the past. I'm not sure that is written down anywhere though. I think this is a good policy either way. We planned to have 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 come out at roughly the same time. As a result, I didn't bother backporting the required patches to the 0.11.x line, effectively ending support. Now 1.0.2 is out and 1.1.0 isn't just yet (I hope soon though) so we effectively broke the rule. I'll look into backporting the required patches to 0.11.x so people can at least do manual fixes. Does that sound like a sensible scenario? Cheers Jan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VPRO www.vpro.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------
