Re: Policy for Abandoned Extensions

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Policy for Abandoned Extensions
Date: 2026-10-10 20:04:22
Message-ID: BEB80B41-6CAD-42B0-95E3-91BB340950CE@justatheory.com
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Oct 10, 2026, at 15:58, Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com> wrote:

> That of course implies that the repository maintainer would be the one to re-release the latest version with -unmaintained at the end when this happens.
> So when it is picked up again, the maintained version needs to get a version pump

Yeah, I could see adding some metadata that authors could use for this purpose. CPAN added something like this a while back so that various messages appear at the top of their pages on metacpan.org. Could hunt that down and copy it.

D

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message shihao zhong 2026-10-10 21:19:31 Re: Policy for Abandoned Extensions
Previous Message Hannu Krosing 2026-10-10 19:58:41 Re: Policy for Abandoned Extensions