All,
>>> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the
>>> support window for 8.2 past the currently-planned December 2011.
>>> There seem to be quite a lot of people running that release precisely
>>> because the casting changes in 8.3 were so painful, and I think the
>>> incremental effort on our part to extend support for another year
>>> would be reasonably small. I guess the brunt of the work would
>>> actually fall on the packagers. It looks like we've done 5 point
>>> releases of 8.2.x in the last year, so presumably if we did decide to
>>> extend the EOL date by a year or so that's about how much incremental
>>> effort would be needed.
Better that someone should just focus on whipping Robert's (or was it
Greg's?) replace-the-missing-casts package into shape as an extension.
I'm sure some kind of corporate sponsorship would be available for this
if someone wanted to work on it. Enough companies are facing this as
upgrade pain to want to fix it. If someone wants to work on it, let me
know; I'll start a fundraising campaign.
--
Josh Berkus
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