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Re: Proposal: begin 1.1 release stabilization.

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-06-07 19:55:13 CEST

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 12:37, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > allow me to
> > recommend that we simply state that as a matter of policy, we will
> > keep at most N maintenance branches alive. As new major and minor
> > releases come out, old ones drop off the radar. If we have a policy
> > regarding this, we can better plan announcements, which means users
> > have time to react, and means our volunteer release managers know up
> > front what they're getting themselves into. :-)
>
> Definitely some advantages to that approach... like, predictablity.
>
> But a disadvantage is that it "ties" our support burden to releases. I
> mean, what if, for some reason, Subversion 1.2 doesn't come out for a
> *year*. Now we're obligated to support 1.0.x, even when 3 people are
> left using it?

"... we will keep at most N ..."
                  ^^^^^^^

:-)

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