I'm sorry; I was snarkier and nastier than I should have been (and than I intended to be). Thanks for calling me on it; I'll try to do better next time.
Jacob On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Andre Terra <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
