On 10/5/05, Giovanni Giorgi <giovanni.giorgi at siforge.org> wrote:
> But If I want to introduce Squeak to my co-workers and bosses, I need
> strong arguments about stability and so forth.

Absolutely! One of the better things about the linux kernel was the
stable/development dichotomy (of course, these days neither branch is
stable, but the idea was good :-P).

I think we have it - for example, 3.8 is being fixed while 3.9 is
being hacked on. However, we should probably be a bit more verbose
about it, and we also should, as a community, make clearer statements
(like: "3.8 will be supported and fixed by the 3.8 release team as
long as X", for some value of X ('until 3.9 is stable', '5 years', 'as
long as someone pays my bills', whatever).

Probably the release team model will help here. A team stays
responsible for a release as long as it lives. When the team
dissolves, the release is unsupported. What we should come up with is
dissolution terms.