Well, the solution isn't upgrading for the sake of upgrading either. 1.9.2 buys me absolutely nothing and has some major costs associated with it. REE is chugging along like a champ.
I don't really understand why the release of 1.9.2 meant all else had to be dropped. Most other communities continue to support their stable releases. It's not as if 1.9.2 has even displaced 1.8.7 with virtually any of the linux distros either. If your policy is to use security-audited / supported packages, as is the case in many environments, moving to 1.9.2 is a dealbreaker.
Anyway, supporting 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 is trivial in most cases. I'm not demanding support for my environment, which I prefer to think of more as stable and battle-tested than "outdated." But I don't understand actively dropping support for it either.
I don't really understand why the release of 1.9.2 meant all else had to be dropped. Most other communities continue to support their stable releases. It's not as if 1.9.2 has even displaced 1.8.7 with virtually any of the linux distros either. If your policy is to use security-audited / supported packages, as is the case in many environments, moving to 1.9.2 is a dealbreaker.
Anyway, supporting 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 is trivial in most cases. I'm not demanding support for my environment, which I prefer to think of more as stable and battle-tested than "outdated." But I don't understand actively dropping support for it either.