| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now? |
| Date: | 2008-09-20 16:51:40 |
| Message-ID: | 48D52A1C.9000305@commandprompt.com |
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> The suggestion I started this thread with amounted to not bothering with
>> pushing 7.4.x updates in update cycles where we'd made no "serious" bug
>> fixes in it; which is a very long way from desupport. Maybe an
>> appropriate compromise is to announce now that 7.4 is in maintenance
>> mode and will receive only really critical bug fixes (which are the only
>> ones that 7.4.x users are going to pay attention to anyway, so nothing
>> is lost); and that actual desupport will occur a year from now.
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> +1
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> Shall we set an exact date, such as October 1, 2009?
Let's include 8.0 in that announcement so we aren't having this
discussion again in a year.
Joshua D. Drake
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