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

[Aaron D. Campbell]

The problem that I see is that web applications in general (and 
WordPress specifically) change so quickly.  It just seems like extended 
support (in excess of a year) ends up being more hassle than it's worth.

Stas SUSHKOV wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:52 +0100, Peter Westwood wrote:
>   
>> On 20 Jul 2009, at 15:49, g30rg3_x wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 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?....
>>>       
>> It is no longer supported because:
>>
>> No one was downloading it.
>> We have made significant security improvements which could not easily  
>> be back ported while still maintaining it as a security bug fix release.
>>     
>
> Peter, what about making a snapshot for the upcoming 3.0 and keeping it
> as a legacy/stable version?
>
> Thanks.
>