Garance A Drosihn napsal/wrote, On 10/12/06 04:09:
Your 4.x system is not doing to die when we EOL 4.x. We're only
This is an open-source project. If it really is as easy to support
4.x with security fixes as you think it is, then "you" (all of you
Yes, I'm ready to self-support the 4.x for me. In the fact, the problem
is not in system, the problem is in ports, but I used few ports only, so
it's acceptable.
But, maybe for my poor knowledge of english, you misunderstand the
point of my think.
The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for 4.x.
I'm NOT speaking about old unsupported hardware - I speaked about
performance in some situation and believe in it's stability.
It has been serie of decisions of commiters and release team that
create current situation and all I say is, the resulting situation is
not good because we must drop product when worse replacement available only.
who depend on a 4.x system) should be able to do that work without
help from "us" (the people running AMD64, ARM, PowerPC, Sparc64,
or even just recent i386 hardware which is not supported by 4.x).
I fully understand it. But' I'm not sure if there is sufficient amount
of users of those new platform in the community. I sayd the commiters
prefer to work on new toys over maintaining the previous code (including
it's own). I understant the working on new toys is more interesting work
than debugging code with not so exact PR in hand only. Despite of it, I
respect the sovereighty of an commiter to decide what he want to work
on. May be - the project need to adopt commiters of another sort - those
who are ready to review old code, repairing bug and polishing. Well -
it's off-topic here.
I sayd the current situation (which has no good solution) is result of
recent decision.
I don't want to sound unsympathetic here, because up until just
six months ago I was also depending on security fixes for 4.x.
But after having two of my personal PC's fried (due to a broken
air-conditioner), I have now moved on.
I'm also preparing to transition, but it's first time I'm changing
better version and thinking I'm upgrading to worse system than previous ....
Despite of anything I sayd, we should thank for the whole team for it's
work. I'm sure anybody do all he can.
Dan
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