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[Jesse Phillips]

On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 20:08:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-12-16 20:04, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>
>> I see it unreasonable to maintain every release. If we need to 
>> make a
>> special "maintenance" release then we directly handle the 
>> issue being
>> requested instead of providing every fix applicable.
>
> We could say that we support X number of older releases.

That was my Y.

A patch should be created off the oldest supported version. If Y 
is 5 then that means checking 5 releases to decided where to 
create the patch from. The current suggestion makes Y at most 3 
and generally 2.

What is being requested is to back port a patch for customer 
using version Z, even if Z is 2.34. It is a special case and the 
driving force could be any number of reasons. The age is not 
really important, but the point is the community officially 
dropped support but someone made a compelling argument to bring 
that support back.