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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
