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

[Kirk M]

My thoughts exactly

On 7/20/2009 3:05 PM, Stas SUSHKOV wrote:
> 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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