[Esapi-user] [Esapi-dev] ESAPI 1.4

Thu Feb 3 13:10:59 EST 2011

This is a very good suggestion. I like it a lot better than calling 1.4 "beta".

I'll make this move shortly after discussing this with the leadership team at the summit.

-Jim Manico
http://manico.net

On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:19 AM, "Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE, Corporate, consultant)"<juan.calderon at ge.com> wrote:

> I second the honesty pledge
> 
> However, "demoting to beta" sounds a little weird to me, can you
> actually do that? IFAIK "Beta" is Latin for "still doesn't work", but
> ESAPI 1.4 was already in use and in production and also publicized as
> release level.
> 
> IMHO, a status of "unsupported" or similar will better express the
> situation and will be more natural to people to understand. Also we can
> encourage people to use ESAPI 2.0 instead.
> 
> Regards,
> Juan C Calderon
> 
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> Subject: [Esapi-dev] ESAPI 1.4
> 
> Folks,
> 
> We need to demote ESAPI 1.4 to BETA. It's the honest thing to do (it's
> terribly out of date by over a year).
> 
> This is not a politically good thing to do. But it is the technically
> honest and right thing to do, in my opinion.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> - Jim
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