I thought I would write this for those who are not on the bug list et al, and particularly those wondering what to do when v7.x goes EOL in May.
Here's the bad news :
In simple terms there is NO upgrade path from v8 - v9 (or v7 - v9). This is a decision from upstream, not that of SME so *please* don't start screaming at us !
Here's the better news :
However, we realise that this is VERY important to a lot of users and we will look at it properly as soon as possible. However, bear the following in mind....
If we don't get v9 finished, there will be nothing to upgrade to....
SO, if you want to upgrade and get some new toys then PLEASE help.
Here's what YOU can do :
Anyone can do it (if I can, then you can). It doesn't need rocket scientists or brain surgeons. It needs normal people with normal skills. If you use SME you have all the skills required. Everything else that you don't have we can teach you.
If you run several, and earn your living from it, (and I now there are many who do) then you should be the first to help. Quite simply we know there are something like 30,000 servers out there, give or take a bit. OK, so I manage a couple. Divide by 3. That means there are probably 10,000 admins out there. If we could harness just an hour of your time once a week, that's a lot of manpower. 10,000 man hours per week ????? Even divide by 10. You can do the maths I am sure..... And money ? If everyone donated a dollar or pound or euro per install we wouldn't be trying to live on 3-400 USD per month would we ???
Think about it, especially if you run servers for clients and earn hard cash from it
All you have to do is email me, join in on the dev and discussion lists or join us on IRC freenode #SME_server and say 'how can I help' ?
Don't sit there and grumble about why we don't do x, y or z.
Join in and help, and you many just get what you want.
If you don't ......
B. Rgds
John
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