Re: Maintenance Policy?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maintenance Policy?
Date: 2009-07-12 01:18:23
Message-ID: 4A5939DF.3040602@dunslane.net
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hmmm, how about this?
>
> "The current policy of the PostgreSQL community is to stop providing
> minor versions (patches or updates) of PostgreSQL five years after a
> version of PostgreSQL is released.

I think this is putting it the wrong way round. We should say that the
general intention is to maintain a version for at least five years, or
some similar formulation.

cheers

andrew

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