+1 - non binding. On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
> +1 > > Christian > > Am 24.04.2012 20:30, schrieb Daniel Kulp: >> Just wanted to open up a discussion about dropping support for 2.3.x. >> 2.3.0 was release over 18 months ago. Since then, 2.4.x was released over a >> year ago and 2.5.x 6 months ago. (and 2.6 last week). Thus, there has >> been plenty of opportunity (a whole year) for people to upgrade to newer >> versions. >> >> Right now, we have 4 branches we're supporting (2.6(trunk)/2.5/2.4/2.3) and >> we're likely soon going to make a 2.6 branch and open up trunk for 2.7 work >> adding yet another one. Dropping 2.3 will simplify things a bit for us. >> >> The major "con" to it is that there are still a lot of folks using 2.3.x. >> According the Nexus stats of central, last month, 2.3.3 was still the second >> most downloaded version. (next to 2.5.2) However, if they are on 2.3.3 >> which was released over a year ago, they haven't been grabbing the latest >> patches anyway so producing more patches won't really matter to them. >> >> In any case, I'm think about doing one more 2.3.x release (2.3.11) which >> would be announced as the end of the 2.3.x line. Obviously if any >> security issues pop up we can push another release in the future, but >> basically end the regular patch releases. >> >> Any objections or other thoughts? >> > > > -- > > Christian Schneider > http://www.liquid-reality.de > > Open Source Architect > Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com >
