Re: Maintenance Policy?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maintenance Policy?
Date: 2009-07-11 00:16:47
Message-ID: E21F5637-7783-4FAB-ACED-5D2E9A98E2BA@gmail.com
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On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> 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."

It seems pretty speculative to propose end of support dates for every
active release at this point; what if it takes us longer than planned
to get the next few releases out?

I think we could try to set dates for the older releases.

...Robert

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