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Re: [DRAFT 3] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Wed Apr 8 17:45:02 2009
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> While Ubuntu will continue to support Dapper for another 2 months on
> desktops and 2 years on servers, we are choosing to end Debathena
> support early. Dapper is the oldest release that we currently support by
> almost a year, and it is showing its age. It lacks many features which
> have made Debathena development easy, and in some cases, possible.
> Furthermore, it is our belief that nobody has installed or used
> Debathena on Dapper for over 6 months.
I think that this is wordier than we need, and also emphasizes the wrong
things. I would say more like:
While Ubuntu will continue to provide limited support for Dapper for
another 2 years, we are ending Debathena support for Dapper now because we
believe there are currently no Debathena Dapper installations and
supporting it slows development because all new features need to be
backported to a 3 year old platform.
-Tim Abbott
