[DRAFT] Parrot Release, Support, and Deprecation Policies

Moritz Lenz moritz at faui2k3.org
Thu Jan 29 07:31:38 UTC 2009


chromatic wrote:

> We support only the most recent milestone family. 

What exactly is meant "support"? It would be nice to have a
clarification in the document. Does it mean that bugs are fixed within a
certain period of time? Or at least all security bugs? Or does that
focus on the aspect of answering questions about how to use parrot?

> That is, after the 1.0
> release, we will support releases numbered 1.x.  After 1.5, we reserve the
> right to drop support for previous 1.x releases.  We offer no guarantees of
> free support for older releases.

And for the newer versions, is there a support guarantee somehow?

Moritz


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