Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

>and the question as i thought was being discussed (or should be
>discussed) was what is the level of interest in having this work kept in
>the community cvs tree vs. someone else's quasi-forked branch...
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>

It is my thinking that regardless of commercial backing that the
PostgreSQL project as a whole would gain better validity
within the commercial world if we maintained releases longer.

It is really irrelevant whether somebody pays me or you 500.00 buck to
make a patch and submit it to the tree. What is
relevant IMHO is that the community is backing a release for longer than
12-18 months.

Yes a commercial company could just pick it up and say ... hey we will
support it for x (Mammoth 7.3.4 is supported until 2005 for example)
but I was more looking at this from an overall community perspective.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>Robert Treat
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