and you'll get more customers for your services<br>I ll need some patches too...<br>no, I cant see why that meets resistance , if thats what part of the users require...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Christian Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christian@pearcec.com">christian@pearcec.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Eric Goldhagen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@openflows.com" target="_blank">eric@openflows.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>At 11:34 PM +0100 3/9/09, Lafont, Denis wrote:<br>
>+1 for me.<br>
><br>
>All our new engagements are D6, and starting to convince D5 users to<br>
>switch to D6 now that most key modules have been migrated.<br>
><br>
>Your "no more security patch in 9 months" is a very valid point ;-)<br>
<br>
</div>We are starting any new projects that come in using D6 but intend to<br>
maintain the sites of any number of clients that will still run D5<br>
for some unknown time into the future.<br>
<br>
Many of our smaller non-profit clients can't afford to upgrade often<br>
enough to keep up with the pace of drupal development.<br>
<br>
Our solution has been to backport security patches that are relevant<br>
to older versions. We did this for 4.6 when 5 came out, and have been<br>
doing it with 4.7 since the release of 6. This gives folks the extra<br>
time necessary to handle the cost and time of upgrades.<br>
<br>
Once 7 is out, we'll do the same for 5.<br>
<br>
We've asked a couple of times to have a space on Drupal.org or in the<br>
repository for these backports but have met resistance, so we host<br>
them on our own site as a service to the community.<br>
<a href="http://openflows.com/drupal/security" target="_blank">http://openflows.com/drupal/security</a><br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>This is great. I have about 5 sites I did for a customer. Facing the idea of upgrading them anytime soon would probably drive them away. So I considered doing the backports myself. Glad to see someone picked up that torch. Most of the fixes are trival.<br>
<br>I can see why you were met with resistance. But as a consultant you can't always convince your customers to upgrade. And if they are happy with the functionality why through out the code base and make the spend the money. This sort of reminds me of <a href="http://fedoralegacy.org/" target="_blank">http://fedoralegacy.org/</a>. I guess it eventually shutdown. I imagine because upgrading just got easier and easier. Perhaps if drupal upgrades get easier and easier then the cost goes down and it becomes a no brainer. <br>
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