Karoly, I never demanded that you or any other developer to support 4.5. I never even said you needed to support it. Let me clarify my comments : What I meant was, move it to an archived area where people can see the whole history and progression of Drupal. Keep it there with big blaring red letters saying --DRUPAL DEVELOPERS DO NOT SUPPORT THESE VERSIONS. Do so anyway so people can look at the structural aspects of it --and in the event they need anything during an upgrade, at least have the files available. These archives and this information is not for you or any of the current developers. it's not just FOSS products that keep archival reference to their product development. Many proprietary products do so as well. This is for future users and coder and the community in general to learn the product's history and development. Why do you want to make it hard for people to get to this information? What I believe Drupal needs is to make it easy for the community to take care of each other and the product. Steps are already in place like the amazing strides people have taken with documentation. I don't really expect you of all people to offer me any help people to upgrade from 4.5. But there may be others in the community who would and will. So let it be. It is really important for developers like you to take a step back and get out of the organic development of your product's community. Your attitude is an obstacle in this natural progression and is not good for Drupal's product development. It is certainly not good at all for its reputation. / liza On 27.May.2006, at 03:07 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Hi,
I am shocked by the demands to support 4.5. Do not forget that you are not paying Drupal developers to do anything. You are not my boss. Nor anyone else's. On what base do you demand? On the amount of contribution you made to Drupal over time? I have yet to see any such contributor (note: I said contributor, not coder.) who demands this.
Therefore, the solution is very simple: if you are running 4.5 and do not want to update, find others in the same situation and hire an able coder who will provide the security patches for you. We will consider adding said person to the security team and some guidance will be providded, but please do not expect too much from our side.
Case closed.
Kind regards,
Karoly Negyesi
Ps. While I sometimes work for money, do not consider me. The less 4.5 code I need to touch, the better for me. Money won't change this.