End of life policy

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 23 de gener del 2025, a les 1:47:48 (Hora estàndard del Centre 
d’Europa), Justin Zobel va escriure:
> On 23/1/25 03:06, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimecres, 22 de gener del 2025, a les 4:35:53 (Hora estàndard del
> > Centre
> > 
> > d’Europa), rhkramer at gmail.com va escriure:
> >> On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 05:16:25 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>> 
> >>  From the peanut gallery: How about:
> >> No more releases planned for this project.
> >> 
> >> and perhaps, in parenthesis after that, something like (end of project)
> > 
> > But we're not speaking about end of project.
> > 
> > We are speaking about the fact that Okular 24.12.x is not going to be
> > released anymore because Okular 25.04.x is the next release series, not
> > that we're not going to release Okular at all anymore.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >    Albert
> 
> Further to this one, perhaps on the announcement posts when new Plasma,
> Gear or Frameworks is announced we could let people know e.g.
> 
> Plasma 6.2 is out!
> 
> Please note: Plasma 6.1 and below will no longer receive any bug fix or
> security updates.

I think this is probably fine, but you'll have to convince the folks that 
write the announcements about that.

I would possibly leave the "security" part of it since for those we 
"sometimes" try to provide patches for older versions.

Cheers,
  Albert