[TYPO3-about] Typo3 4.5 end of maintenance

[Anja Leichsenring]

Hi there,

full ack with Jigal, too, and a big -1 for again extended support. There 
was time a plenty to plan upgrades and start the progress. It is not 
that 4.5 will stop working the day it reaches EOL, and if further 
support is needed nontheless, agencies should care on their own to 
organize this.

Just my 2 cents
Anja

On 09.09.2014 15:00, Michael Stucki wrote:
> Hi Jigal and Stefan, hi all!
>
> I don't need to know that it means more work for the developers - this
> is obvious and clear to me.
>
> I'd rather like to know if there is a real need for the agencies to
> extend the support. What is their progress on migrating older releases?
> Is it planned and is it realistic to upgrade all their projects until
> March 2015?
>
> When I look at http://t3census.info/ it seems like there is still a lot
> of work ahead of us (although the data is already 4 months old).
>
> Any further feedback is welcome!
>
> Greetings, Michael
>
> Am 09.09.2014 um 14:23 schrieb 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
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