On 12/5/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> wrote:
So I think a public statement that we will support 2.4 with security patches for a while longer (and perhaps with security patches *only*) would be a good thing - independent of the LSB, actually.
Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat)
I think we should document our intentions in the release PEP (or some other PEP possibly). Should we state that we will support version x.y for N years after initial release or based on version numbers such as x.(y-N) where y is the current version and N is a small number? I'd prefer the time based approach because it seems much more common. For reference here are some release dates: 2.2: 2001-12-21 2.3: 2003-07-29 2.4: 2004-11-30 If we stopped supporting 2.3, that would mean we support for 2-3 years. n