On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
>> We have apps in production running Django 1.3. There won't be any
>> security fixes. If there's a critical vulnerability, we may have to do a
>> lot of unpaid work to either backport the fix,
>
>
> I have to say I find this kinda hilarious: you *know* it's a lot of work
> to backport stuff, and you'd like *us* to do that work instead of you.
>
>
>> I'm not asking anyone to do my job for me (I hope) but it would be really
>> nice to have something like 3 years of support for core infrastructure like
>> Django, that's really painful to upgrade, and even more painful to replace.
>> It would certainly help me to sleep better at night.
>>
>
> But you are, actually, asking us to work for you. And we're happy to do
> it! This is what open source is all about; volunteering to do work (often
> rather thankless work) to help other people sleep at night. But there's a
> limit to the free time we have, and there's a limit to the amount of scut
> work you can expect a volunteer community to do for you.
>


Not to hijack the thread purposely, but it's hard not to point out what a
great example of "poor attitude" this is, as was called out in a thread
here on django-developers a while back[0]. Since you'd rather not have
discussions *post facto*, I guess it doesn't hurt to be timely.

Cheers,
AT

[0]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/DUQtBrM2iTs/discussion

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