ESC meeting minutes: 2024-02-22

[Dennis Roczek]

Hi *,

Am 23.02.24 um 16:44 schrieb Dennis Roczek:
> 
> 
> * Deprecating Windows 7 and 8/8.1? (Ilmari)
>    * Firefox 115 ESR is the last release supporting anything older than 
> Windows 10
>      + EOL of that is September 2024, FWIW (Miklos)
>    * Chrome 110 (released a year ago) requires Windows 10
>    * Market share looks like 5% of Windows.
>    * What does "deprecating" mean? (Hossein)
>      + deprecating means: announcement of the intention (Ilmari)
>    * Amend wording to make clear that OS versions no longer supported by 
> the OS Vendor are only compatible on a best-effort basis, no explicit 
> testing is done, and while we don't intentionally break functionality 
> some things might not work without us realizing (Cloph)
>    * If the release notes say so, the website will also need updating 
> (Stephane)
>      + that can be done, but it comes in 2025
> AI: add this to the 24.8 release notes (Ilmari)

Just want to add and give my +1: even the "obscure" POS versions which 
included security patches for Windows 7 (registry hack open vor 
everybody, I used it) is obsolete since October 2021 and the ESU paid 
stuff will end in Oct 2024!

Best regards,

Dennis