| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Maintenance Policy? |
| Date: | 2009-07-07 07:28:33 |
| Message-ID: | 4A52F921.7080206@enterprisedb.com |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Howdy Hackers,
>
> Is there a published maintenance policy somewhere? Something that says
> for how long the project supports minor releases of PostgreSQL.
We don't have a published policy, but I believe an unofficial policy has
been to support minor releases for about 5 years.
> 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.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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