[development] Go PHP 5, Go!

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:13 -0700, Derek Wright wrote:
> On to the bigger question:
> 
> - Once D7 is about to be released and we have actual facts about php5  
> availability for our user base (not speculation like "70% of our  
> users will be left behind"), we can very publicly announce that we're  
> going to extend the support life-cycle of D6 core, and encourage  
> module maintainers to do the same.  Killes suggested this originally,  
> and it's clearly a great idea.
>
> Cheers,
> -Derek (dww)

I think Ubuntu's model of doing a long term support release may be nice
for drupal, but it's asking a lot of the community, and who ever has the
maintainer role for a particular version.