Re: Policy proposal: Dropping 2.16 reports

[stappers stappers nl (Geert Stappers)]

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Op 16-09-2007 om 12:48 schreef Andre Klapper:
> 
> but what for?
> i know gnome product developers that had to put their patches into their
> 2.14.x-long-term-support-version, the 2.18.x-current-stable and the
> 2.19.x-development branch. it was a huge workload.
> gnome does NOT provide big enduser support. gnome users normally get
> their distribution from a vendor, on a free or a contract basis. if that
> vendor wants to provide long-term support to his customers, he can
> always do, but that's not GNOME's task.


Assuming there is a clean line between 
the GNOME project and "the vendors" is IMHO wrong.

Please allow support for 'oldstable' and even 'oldoldstable'.

And please read 'allow' as "do not drop"


Cheers
Geert Stappers
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