Puh-lease do! +1. Jeff
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Daniel Kulp wrote: > > 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? > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com >
