Summer of Code

[Luke Schierer]

Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:43 -0400, Stu Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:36 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
>>> Mark Doliner wrote:
>>>> I'm in favor of dropping support for GTK+ older than 2.6.0, and more likely 2.8.0.
>>>>
>>>> -Mark
>>> how old a gtk is redhat supporting? For what sort of timeline at this point?
>> RHEL3 has Gtk 2.2
>>
>> RHEL4 has Gtk 2.4
>>
>> RHEL5 has Gtk 2.10
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ explains the support
>> policy for each of the above. RHEL3 will reach end of maintenance
>> support 
> 
> <stupid random key combination caused the email to send itself> ... 
> 
> RHEL3 will reach end of maintenance support Oct 31, 2010, which might be
> a bit ambitious for us to try to keep up with. Maybe we could track what
> Red Hat call 'Deployment Support' ? (this would leave us supporting Gtk
> 2.4 until at least October 2008).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Stu.

If I'm reading that right, "Deployment Support" is 3 years extending 
from the end of "Full Support."  Or a total of 6 years after a redhat 
release.  I'd say we should only handle the 3 years of "Full Support" 
mode in head, and relgate anything else to bug-fix only side branches. 
For example releasing a 2.4.x 9 months from now if need be long after 
we've moved on to 2.5 or 3.x.

luke

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