[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: backporting including python-package-product support to support Zope 2.8

[Alexander Limi]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:35:20 -0800, Tres Seaver  
<tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

> Zope Corp. is willing (or has been, anyway;  I can't speak for them any
> longer) \to sell support for released versions of Zope.  Under such a
> contract, the supporting company would arrange to get critical
> (stability / security-related) bugfixes backported, if the
> version-under-support was no longer the actively developed version.
>
> Anyone expecting to get *that* kind of support for free is smoking
> crack, given the size of the Zope community and its general willingness
> to upgrade as needed.

Indeed. We also support older Plones/Zopes if we get paid (and backport  
fixes), but it's unrealistic to let the community handle this level of  
support.

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