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

Mon Jul 20 19:21:37 UTC 2009

Though I like the newer versions of Wordpress, sometimes, I'm not happy with
so many releases so frequently. Like I installed wordpress 2.8.1 and it
looks great, by the time installed the required plugins and configured it a
newer version has already come up.
The other fact is the "Wordpress automatic update"  doesn't work, so, I had
to uninstall the old wordpress version and install the new one, making it
tedious for me.

Apart from the frequent releases, I Love Wordpress.

As Stas had already pointed out. Lean Concept of Toyota is bases on Takts.

--
Kumar APP
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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