[1445] in athena10
Re: Dapper Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Mon Mar 9 16:01:20 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Agreed. I think it is probably also important that there are like 3
dapper users running Debathena.
We may want to at the same time announce our intentions regarding how long
we'll support the hardy LTS release.
-Tim Abbott
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, William Cattey wrote:
> Although the debathena support for Dapper and Gutsy predates my involvement,
> the course of action you propose sounds sane to me.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
>
> > While I'm sending mail, I'd like to propose an end-of-life for Debathena
> > Dapper support.
> >
> > It's old, it's crufty, and most importantly, it's not uncommon these
> > days that it impedes our ability to write new features.
> >
> > I'd specifically like to propose that we EOL Debathena Dapper at the
> > same time we EOL Debathena Gutsy: namely, when Jaunty comes out.
> >
> > If we want to do this, we should probably send mail to
> > debathena-announce nowish. I'll try to draft such an e-mail soon.
> >
> > - Evan
>
