* [Nived Gopalan]
Post by Nived GopalanSupport for version 2.2 shall continue till TSL 3.2 is out.
And hopefully slightly longer.. :)
As Mr. Meyer said, the policy has been that support for 2.2 would
continue 3 years after the release date of 3.2. This is so that the
distribution can be "Enterprise" with no sudden obsolescence. People in
the industry do not like to have to upgrade their servers on just a few
months notice.
The "3 years after the next .2" policy was planned out from there being
a point release every 6 months, and so a .2 release every 1.5 years.
This way the development team would only have to support any .2 release
for about 4.5 years, avoiding the pain of having to support a super-old
release (TSL 1.5 gave us lots of trouble that way).
However, considering the age of TSL 2.2, I don't think anyone has reason
to be very angry should the developers decide to look away from that
part of the policy for a bit and make the EOL notice a bit shorter. EOL
one year after the release of 3.2 should give any corporate users the
time they need to plan and perform the upgrade.
Øystein
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If it ain't broke, don't break it.