On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> >
> This policy is more a result of the community's capabilities than anything
> else. The decision to not ship all fixes to 1.6 users is a compromise.
> We were shipping all kinds of bugfixes for 1.6 users between March 2009
> and October 2011. That is a long time, and as a result the 1.6 line is
> now very stable. I would say that it is a good fit for enterprise-class
> long-term support systems for this reason.
Yes, it doesn't seem that bad today. I'm just pointing out that there
will very likely be a large user base continuing to run some version
of 1.6.x for 5 to 10 years in the future.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
