Re: Maintenance Policy?

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I'd suggest that we publish an official policy, with the following
> > dates for "EOL":
> >
> > 7.4 2009-08-01
> > 8.0 2010-02-01
> > 8.1 2011-01-01
> > 8.2 2012-01-01
> > 8.3 2013-03-01
> > 8.4 2014-08-01
> >
> > EOL would be defined as:
> >
> > "After the above dates, the PostgreSQL Project will not promise to
> > provide any minor (patch or update) releases of the respective
> > versions, whether for security, data loss, or any other issue.
> > Individual companies might choose to continue backporting patches to
> > earlier versions, and if they contribute these update releases we
> > will make them available. However, after the final minor release
> > date, there is no guarantee that updates will be available and users
> > should upgrade."
>
> +1
>
> It's useful to have the version number and date of the most recent
> release too, but this is the important stuff.

We haven't committed to something like this in the past but it is
probably time where we can't avoid it.

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