Re: EOL for 7.4?

2009/11/3 Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:37 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> > Unless there are unfixable data loss bugs in it, I say we keep it.
>> >
>> > Many people still run it, so why make them move?
>>
>> There are non-trivial amounts of effort required to produce and test
>> packages for each branch we maintain. That affects all of the
>> packagers to varying degrees and should not be overlooked.
>
> I see we've already removed it from the home page anyway.
>
> People that are running older releases need to be able to find info
> about our position with respect to earlier releases. Keeping the docs
> available is important, since people may need to read up on how to dump
> data so it can be upgraded.
>
> We need a link to "older releases" with mention something like
> 7.4     Considered Stable, no tracking or fixing of new bugs
> 7.3     Considered Stable, no tracking or fixing of new bugs
> 7.2     Considered Unstable; upgrade immediately to avoid data loss
>
> Personally, I would be more inclined to keep 7.4 as a supported version
> and remove support for 8.0, possibly 8.1 also. There's no need to remove
> them in chronological order - we should remove them based upon whether
> its sensible to maintain them further. It also helps if we can say we
> support software over long periods of time; that's very important for
> embedded software.
>

+1

Pavel

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