On Dec 28, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Stefan <luke1...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Suggestion for a different phrasing: > > section id: svn-1.9-old-stable > > The Subversion 1.9.x line is now the old stable version. This means that > 1.9.x will still receive security relevant fixes as well as bugfixes. While > we will evaluate any bugreport with regards to its severity, there might be > issues with a lower severity which will only get fixed in 1.10.x (this > especially applies to issues which would require API additions/changes and/or > require a significant investment to get backported to the old stable version). > Therefore, if you are running into an issue with the old stable version which > has already been fixed in the latest version, we might ask you to upgrade to > that version to resolve the issue. > > Regards, > Stefan >
Just chiming in here. As a user, Stefan's suggested text makes sense, sounds reasonable from both a dev and a user point of view, and is far less scary sounding than "deprecated" or "doomed" -- yes I know the other text said it's NOT doomed, but nevertheless!!! :-)
