[wp-testers] Whats up with the legacy 2.0 branch?

[Kirk M]

Ubuntu WordPress? ;D

On 07/20/2009 02:08 PM, Stas SUSHKOV wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:35 +0000, Holly Doyne wrote:
>>  From what I heard this weekend from Matt, there really is going to be nothing more
>> done for the "legacy." No one apparently is downloading it; the security improvements
>> really can't be reversed engineered without a lot of work, especially if they are dependent
>> on some of the later work (and server updates).
>>
>> Think of it as the time line being moved up. There is also the issue that if you don't have
>> anyone who wants to adopt it and spend their time on 2.0 as apposed to the newer versions,
>> there is not going to be much work put into it.
>>
>> The reasons I can see for not upgrading would primarily be lack of server support for more
>> recent PHP and mySQL..
>>
>> What you might want to do is assist them in updating to at least 2.5....  Not surprisingly, I have
>> found several holdouts wind up really liking widgets and some of the new hooks.
>
> It's a good question.
> As for me, the only lack of feature WordPress has, is it's stability. I
> mean there will always be updates and features wp-devs will want to
> implement, and thanks god they brought that automatic upgrade tool. But
> when it comes to stability and long term support, it's hard for me (as
> an example) to recommend the WordPress to a user who doesn't care too
> much about features and is looking for something he will afford
> forgetting to update.
>
> WordPress wins a lot from plugins, and the community itself are the
> plugin users and developers, but this can turn into bad if somebody uses
> a plugin which is no more (or lazily) supported by its author on a new
> WordPress release.
>
> I remember I had to wait weeks until qTranslate developer will commit
> the fix to the broken plugin's wysiwyg integration. And this is all
> cause WordPress HAS NO legacy or LTS (search for Ubuntu LTS for
> reference) branches.
>
> I dream of a WordPress snapshot developed as a stable/legacy branch,
> which I will prefer using for my projects instead of going upstream with
> cutting edge features and the risk of getting left behind when it comes
> to plugins.
>
> P.S.: I raised this question some time ago, but it seems that not too
> many people care about it.
>
> Happy hacking :)
>
>>
>>   -Holly
>> www.proseknitic.de
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> Von: g30rg3_x<g30rg3x at gmail..com>
>> An: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
>> Gesendet: Montag, den 20. Juli 2009, 15:49:00 Uhr
>> Betreff: [wp-testers] Whats up with the legacy 2.0 branch?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the current status of the legacy 2.0 branch?
>> Seems that the WordPress team already deleted support for this branch
>> but i can't find information about when this happen and why?....
>>
>> Isn't this branch the one that promised "security and critical fixes
>> until 2010"?[1]...
>> Is it cause debian lenny moved on to 2.5.x?[2]...
>>
>> Sorry but i just want clarification of this issue cause some people
>> are still using the legacy branch and they don't want to move on up
>> the latest stable for his own personal matters so i guess is better
>> ask here if there gonna be a complete drop over the support of the
>> legacy 2.0 branch or well another branch will be used as the legacy
>> branch.
>>
>> Links
>> [1] http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/
>> [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/wordpress
>>
>> Regards
>> PS: Pardon me, my really bad english.
>> _________________________
>>               g30rg3_x
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