Re: EOL for 7.4?

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:32:17AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> So I'm going to make a case in favor of EOL'ing 7.4. In fact, I'd be in
> favor of doing so in, say, February after an announcement this month.
>
> The main reason I'm in favor of this is that we have a lot of users
> using 7.4 out of inertia, and they need a message that 7.4 is "not
> supported" to get them to upgrade. I can think of several here in SF
> who have been "working on upgrade plans" for the past 3 years. An EOL
> is what's needed to give them a kick in the pants.
>
> The same goes for other OSS projects. There's quite a few random OSS
> apps which were created on PG 7.4 and have never offered their users an
> upgrade path (Gnuworld comes to mind). They need an EOL announcement to
> get them motivated to upgrade.

+1

-dg

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