Re: Maintenance Policy?

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maintenance Policy?
Date: 2009-07-07 07:45:46
Message-ID: 937d27e10907070045j74eb1839p5778965625bc3e18@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Heikki
Linnakangas<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

>> For
>> example, does 7.4 still get bug fixes and minor releases? If not, how
>> does one know when support for a major version has been dropped?
>
> Hmm, I thought we dropped support for 7.4 a while ago, and there's no
> download link for it on www.postgresql.org anymore. But looking at the
> CVS history, I see that others are still committing fixes to 7.4 branch.

We dropped the link when we released 8.4, primarily for space reasons.
I believe Tom is still patching 7.4 though as Redhat have obligations
to support it and he'd have to do it regardless of project policy.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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