[Users] Maintaining old releases

[Frank Loeffler]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:32:50PM +0200, Ian Hinder wrote:
> One proposal would be to check every commit and decide if it needs to
> be backported to old releases.  This would only happen if the old
> release would no longer work without the commit (or maybe if the bug
> was very important?).

I believe that this would be too much effort for every commit.

We don't have enough people (and interest) to do a lot of back-ports.
Officially I would like to only support the current stable release. That
means that important bug-fixes like especially out-dated simfactory data
would be fixed in the current release; likewise for any important bugs.
New features would probably always get a 'no'.

As to versions older than the current release: I don't think we will
update those anymore even for those important bugs, unless there is
enough interest by one of the maintainers to do the work of implementing
a fix and testing it. I don't want to be in the way of someone updating
older releases, but no one should expect us to have the time for that.

Frank

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