[TYPO3-about] Typo3 4.5 end of maintenance

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 9-9-2014 10:55, Michael Stucki wrote:
> What does the rest think about this?

My personal opinion:

 From my own observations I think that at least some agencies started 
the migration track way too late.
The overlap was originally 6 months; by request of agencies this was 
extended to 12 months. 6.2 was postponed by at least 3 months, so 
everybody got at least 9 months extra to start talking to customers.
Unfortunately plans for the upgrade were only started after the release 
and after half a year the first upgrades actually started (some observed 
situations; there will be agencies that were in time to start right 
after the release)

Extending support officially will be an extra burden for the 
contributors and extension developers.
If agencies need extra time with 4.5 they could organize to hire someone 
to do the backports of security issues and prepare releases. These 
should however be marked as unofficial versions.

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Jigal van Hemert
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