End of life policy

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Jan 21 22:16:25 GMT 2025


El dimarts, 21 de gener del 2025, a les 1:19:47 (Hora estàndard del Centre 
d’Europa), Justin Zobel va escriure:
> On 21/1/25 10:41, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM Justin Zobel <justin at 1707.io> wrote:
> >> Hey Everyone,
> >> 
> >> I've only been a part of KDE for a few years now but I've seen it
> >> mentioned multiple times and I'm guessing it's been discussed before but
> >> I think KDE needs clearly defined end-of-life policies for it's
> >> software. These are common practice and let users and developers know
> >> what they should be using.
> >> 
> >> KDE being a mostly volunteer-driven organization would be well within
> >> expectations to only support the latest version of it's software.
> >> 
> >> I'm sending this email in a hope of starting a productive discussion
> >> around this.
> > 
> > My understanding is that we currently only support the latest version.
> > That is, as soon as a new version arrives, the previous version is no
> > longer supported or maintained.
> > 
> > Is there a different rule in place?
> 
> If this is a rule it is not stated on https://community.kde.org from
> what I can see.

Is it not a consequence from the fact that there's no more releases planned?

It's weird to say "for things that we don't plan releases there will no be 
releases" 

What would you write?

Cheers,
  Albert





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