I have approximately 10,000 reasons to personally prefer Rails continuing to support 2.3 out of the goodness of their hearts, but I don't think that satisfying my (and other users') selfish desires is necessarily "better" than not doing that. It is necessary and proper that the project have priorities, and those aren't going to be optimal for every user every time.
I am quite happy that they were really explicit about "We are dropping support for 2.3 when 4.0 lands" so that those of us who depend on 2.3 to eat had months to explore other options prior to needing them urgently. That's something that many OSS projects can and should emulate.
I am quite happy that they were really explicit about "We are dropping support for 2.3 when 4.0 lands" so that those of us who depend on 2.3 to eat had months to explore other options prior to needing them urgently. That's something that many OSS projects can and should emulate.