@iliana huh, I agree with part of your premise (hardly anybody can maintain old branches) but don't you think it's useful to know the last release you can upgrade to without changing client code?

@iliana depends I guess. I’ve maintained forks of other people’s gems after a major bump when we couldn’t yet upgrade due to other dependencies.

I’ve also had people send us patches with back ports of bug fixes to older versions for us.

So as a consumer and producer of libraries it seems to help.