[Koha-devel] Koha 3.4 end of life?

[MJ Ray]

Jared asked:
> Why don't we just say "3.4.x is End of Life and no longer supported" and
> leave it at that?

Because if someone has enough money and wants to adopt it, they can.
I doubt they will (I think only 2.2 has continued much after the
community abandoned it and then not in a very organised way) but it
leaves the door open.

It should also encourage RMaints to actually post a Request For
Adoption notice / Orphan warning promptly, rather than our July
meeting being told that some developers thought it was abandoned in
April.  I think there was no big announcement of that... or I missed
it because of other announcements in April and my shortage of time but
http://koha-community.org/download/ says "the previous releases still
being supported are 3.4 and 3.6."  So let's make it less scary for
the RMaint to bow out neatly, right?

I expect most community members will strongly advise users to upgrade,
but this isn't feudal software where the copyright holder can kill it
off and we shouldn't make it appear that it is.

Hope that explains,
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