[TYPO3-about] Typo3 4.5 end of maintenance

[Stefan Neufeind]

On 09/09/2014 02:13 PM, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

I fully agree with Jigal here. From the TYPO3 project the schedule was
clearly communicated and even extended. There will always be the ones
with slow adoption and those who just start thinking about something
when it's almost already to late (which imho is not yet the case).


Kind regards,
 Stefan