| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Maintenance Policy? |
| Date: | 2009-07-07 17:18:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20090707171844.GH7694@alvh.no-ip.org |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> One thing I think we really should do is give prominent public notice
>> of any EOL for a branch. At least a couple of months, preferably. If
>> the lifetime were absolutely fixed it might not matter so much, but as
>> it isn't I think we owe that to our users.
>
> Perhaps a maintenance page on the site with a table for each version of
> PostgreSQL, in reverse chronological order, showing the initial release
> date and the date of last supported release (anticipated, perhaps, to be
> something like Sept 1 for 7.4).
We have an RSS:
http://www.postgresql.org/versions.rss
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