Re: Bugzilla and the Great Quest for the Query -> maintaining old software

[Mike Newman <mike gtnorthern demon co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:31, Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> I'm all for it. If there are more people interested in maintaining 1.4.x
> please come forward now. I think the 1.4.1 release is going to be very
> good from a stability point of view and it could very well be that many
> users will want to continue using it for some time still.
> 
> Not to steal any of 2.0's thunder, but I think we should try to support
> it as long as it's the main platform for most of the distros that ship
> GNOME.

I'd heartily agree that 1.4.x should be supported for as long as
possible - since it has shipped in some recent distributions, and will
likely be part of the next RedHat release. I'm certainly going to
continue to use 1.4 on several machines in my charge. I'd also go as far
as to offer my assistance, though I doubt I could be particularly useful
as regards maintaining specific packages.

Mike

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