| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now? |
| Date: | 2008-09-20 17:23:48 |
| Message-ID: | 48D531A4.1060208@hagander.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> 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.
Are we ready enough to actually put a *timeline* on the website?
Meaning, can we already put in preliminary dates for *all* released
versions?
//Magnus
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