According to the official sources now the time has come for Drupal 6 to take rest and it will be on February 24th 2016 when it will reach the end. It was earlier announced in the Drupal 6 extended support policy that was released 3 months later the release of Drupal 8.
What is the meaning of End of Life for Drupal 6
- The first step will be stop of support for Drupal 6, the users will not see any new projects or support to fix the bugs in the running projects and will not find any kind of documentations also.
- The users of Drupal 6 will not find any kind of security support and suggestions for Drupal 6.
- The projects that have been created using Drupal 6 will be reported as not supported.
- The users will not find any kind of updates and the plug-ins may stop working for Drupal 6.