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schneelandschaften
1 Dec 2008, 2:17 PM
Good evening, everybody,

with the 3.0 release on the horizon, I actually wonder whether somebody can bring light to the maintenance policy for the 2.2 release line?

The background of this question is that I currently plan for a larger refactoring of a project. This will include replacing the current front end which is created by a heavily customized combination of YUI, HTML_AJAX and Smarty with a cleaner, more streamlined extjs-based interface. Guessing from the examples and some of the tutorials it seems that using 2.2 will be sufficient, furthermore I would like to start during the Winter holidays. However, if only the 3.0 line received bug and security fixes, I would consider starting with SVN or a beta version (if such a thing is planned) and hope that "early 2009" is truly early ;).

Best regards,
S.
jack.slocum
1 Dec 2008, 2:45 PM
2.x will be fully supported until 4.x is out. Our policy is to support back 1 major version from the current version.
schneelandschaften
1 Dec 2008, 2:47 PM
Great to hear and thanks for the quick reply!

Best,
S.
fangzhouxing
1 Dec 2008, 7:31 PM
Has any release plan of 2.3 version?
jack.slocum
1 Dec 2008, 8:55 PM
There is no plan for a 2.3. It will be 2.2.xx for support related updates and bug fixes.
Animal
2 Dec 2008, 1:15 AM
4? Woohoo! What plans are in the pipeline for 4? Or would you have to kill us if you told us?:))
ApocalypseCow
2 Dec 2008, 1:52 AM
I think by 4.0 Ext will be self-aware.
dreas
2 Dec 2008, 8:15 AM
Speaking of 3.0, will 2.x code work with 3.0 out of the box?
jack.slocum
2 Dec 2008, 9:37 AM
Speaking of 3.0, will 2.x code work with 3.0 out of the box?

99% will. There may be a few minor spots which will require a slight change but it will be minimal.
fangzhouxing
3 Dec 2008, 12:59 AM
99% will. There may be a few minor spots which will require a slight change but it will be minimal.

That's great!
Frank
8 Dec 2008, 7:27 PM
99% will. There may be a few minor spots which will require a slight change but it will be minimal.

What about documention?:)
watrboy00
8 Dec 2008, 7:46 PM
Once Ext 4x comes out it better code my app just like my Apple computer does all my work for me even before I think it.

//blatant pun at Apple ;)
Animal
9 Dec 2008, 12:34 AM
What about documention?:)

The API documentation is drawn from comments in the code.

The code already contained documentation comments when it was branched from the 2.0 line, and the comments in the 3.0 branch have been kept up to date in parallel with all updates.

Still some gaps in the documentation comments in some areas which I cannot address because they are areas I don't use and so have not studied. But I'm sure the core team will address those areas before release.