[consulting] Staying Current

[Fred Jones]

>> When D7 gets released, the community will support D7 and D6.
>>
>> D5 support will be dropped at that juncture.
>
> Who gets to say what "the community" will do?
>
> Because Drupal has expanded a lot over recent years and has been adopted by
> some big sites - surely there is a stronger argument than in the past for
> longer term support.
>
> So maybe the existing security team won't take it on - but if there are
> enough people in the community who do want to support D5 for longer then I
> can't see why anyone else in the community would want to prevent this.

I have wondered the same thing. How many more D5 sites are there than
D4? A factor of 10, 100 or 1000? Very hard to say I think but there
are a few facts about core downloads at least here
http://buytaert.net/drupal-download-statistics-2008

Whatever that figure is, there certainly tens if not hundreds of
thousands of D5 sites out there, and as mentioned, many of them are
large sites owned by large entities. My guess is that a very large
percentage, if not the majority, do not have a strong interest in
upgrading. That's just my guess.

Fred