Re: Maintenance Policy?

On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> All,
>
> I'd suggest that we publish an official policy, with the following
> dates for "EOL":
>
> 7.4 2009-08-01
> 8.0 2010-02-01
> 8.1 2011-01-01
> 8.2 2012-01-01
> 8.3 2013-03-01
> 8.4 2014-08-01
>
> EOL would be defined as:
>
> "After the above dates, the PostgreSQL Project will not promise to
> provide any minor (patch or update) releases of the respective
> versions, whether for security, data loss, or any other issue.
> Individual companies might choose to continue backporting patches to
> earlier versions, and if they contribute these update releases we
> will make them available. However, after the final minor release
> date, there is no guarantee that updates will be available and users
> should upgrade."

+1

It's useful to have the version number and date of the most recent
release too, but this is the important stuff.

Best,

David