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

[Stas SUSHKOV]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:11 -0400, Kirk M wrote:
> Ubuntu WordPress? ;D

So what, Lean concept and model was taken from Toyota's manufacturing
(which is about cars), and now it's successfully implemented in software
development (some claims it's better than Agile/Scrum)...
and Ubuntu is far not the worst Open Source project from where we can
learn stuff.

:)

> 
> 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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