| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Releasing in September |
| Date: | 2016-01-20 16:51:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20160120165117.GA18514@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:53:25AM -0800, Joshua Drake wrote:
> #2 This is a longer topic. I have been stewing in my head about
> releases for years. I have even brought up the idea of an Ubuntu
> style release cycle on list once or twice. The more I think about
> it, the more I think this can help our community. We essentially
> would have two types of releases:
>
> STS:
>
> * Supported for 1 release cycle plus 6 months (18-24 months)
> * Inline upgrades supported
>
> LTS:
>
> * Supported for standard 5 years
> * Is allowed to break binary format from STS but not previous LTS.
> This allows two LTS versions per 5 year support cycle
I just don't buy the Ubuntu release model for our database. Ubuntu is
trying to balance hot features vs stability, while we are really focused
on stability, similar to Debian.
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