Summer of Code

[Mark Doliner]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:24:52 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote
> 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

Is this actually relevant?  What version of Gaim/Pidgin does RHEL4 ship?  I
see that CentOS 4.6 has "Pidgin 1.5.1."  It seems like our decision to stop
supporting earlier versions of gtk in future releases wouldn't affect RHEL4.

-Mark