Re: EOL for 7.4?

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:32:17 -0800 Josh Berkus wrote:

> The same goes for other OSS projects. There's quite a few random OSS
> apps which were created on PG 7.4 and have never offered their users an
> upgrade path (Gnuworld comes to mind). They need an EOL announcement to
> get them motivated to upgrade.

I know several customers who decided to move from 7.3 only after the
EOL was announced. If 7.3 would not has see an EOL, they would never
ever have moved to a newer version.

> We'd want to do a full publicity around this, including a "how do I
> upgrade" page and an "what does EOL mean for an OSS project" page. If
> this goes well, we could EOL 8.0 after 8.5 comes out, and thus decrease
> our maintenance burden.

+1

--
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project