[geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

[Regina Obe]

I'm thinking simple fixes and serious security bugs.

I think it's a given we won't break our backs to fix a particular bug if it
is deemed "De-stabilizing".
By De-stabilizing, I'm thinking enough code to risk causing a particular
bigger issue.  Pretty much the same policy we have in PostGIS no?

But by saying EOL we are saying we will absolutely NEVER push fixes to it.

If some corporate paying customer is running something as crazy as 3.4, you
should just fork that for them and patch it there and deal with their
upgrade issues some other day.

Thanks,
Regina




> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 11:20 AM
> To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sep 12, 2022, at 8:12 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to make an RFC proposing a standardish End of Like Policy
> >
> > Does anyone have an issue with that?
> 
> Only insofar as there's this idea that we support any particular version
at all.
> Honestly, there are some bugs I just cannot be bothered to try and fix
> (anything overlay pre 3.9, right? the fix there is to upgrade) but at the
same
> time, I don't really mind pulling back trivial stuff pretty far. What does
it mean
> to "support" this stuff anyways? Comes right down to it, if a paying
customer
> on 3.4 has an issue and is unable to upgrade, we'll break our fingers to
try and
> fix it. But that has to do with our corporate support, not some community
> commitment to support.
> 
> ???
> 
> P
> 
> 
> >
> > I'm thinking of a policy along the lines of
> >
> > We support a release generally at most X plus years after the first
> > version of it, but we have discretion to increase that if needed.
> >
> > X = 3 - 5 feels about right.
> >
> > How do people feel about that?
> >
> > If so I can draft up an RFC about that and we can edit if we are
> > comfortable with that and start EOL'ing other releases besides the 3.5 I
> recently EOL'd.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Regina
> >
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