[Framework-Team] Version Support Confusion

Steve McMahon steve at dcn.org
Thu Apr 23 15:26:41 UTC 2009


Excellent. I like the "the exception is" version.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Maurits van Rees
<m.van.rees at zestsoftware.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Steve McMahon wrote:
>> Active maintenance of Plone happens for one major version of Plone at a time.
>> Once a new major version is released, the old major version is
>> maintained until the first minor version of the new major version is
>> released.
>
> To me, the second sentence contradicts the first one: we maintain one
> major version at a time, except when we maintain two... :-) How about
> this:
>
> Active maintenance of Plone happens for one major version of Plone at
> a time.  The exception is that once a new major version is released,
> the old major version is maintained until the first minor version of
> the new major version is released.
>
> Or:
>
> Active maintenance of Plone happens for one major version of Plone at
> a time.  When a new major verson of Plone is released, this new
> version will be the actively maintained version.  However, there is a
> period of overlap: until the first minor version of the new major
> version is released, the old major version is also maintained.
>
>
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