I agree with Benjamin and Sean.<br><br>Above and beyond total agreement with Karen and others in terms of what developers per se can be expected to do (they cannot support infinite or even > 2 versions), there is a growing demand for centralizing real world expectations for Drupal 5.x backporting.<br>
<br>Where there is demand there are solutions.<br><br>Victor<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Sean Burlington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@practicalweb.co.uk">sean@practicalweb.co.uk</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;"><div class="im">Benjamin Melançon wrote:<br>
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Agreed on the importance of staying current, but an upgrade is often<br>
necessarily a redevelopment, which not all clients can afford.<br>
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OpenFlows already maintains backports of security patches for Drupal<br>
core and a few contrib modules used by the sites of behind-the-times<br>
clients:<br>
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... and my expectation is that if the security team drop support for D5 (as planned) then we'll find other people working on big D5 projects contributing security fixes as well.<br>
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This is potentially a really good way to get some of the companies benefiting from Drupal to contribute stuff back.<br>
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I think D5 is too big to EOL<br>
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especially as D6 hasn't been complete enough (still no stable e-commerce) for long enough (new D5 sites still being launched now)<div class="im"><br>
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Sean Burlington<br>
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<a href="http://www.practicalweb.co.uk" target="_blank">www.practicalweb.co.uk</a><br>
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