| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Maintenance Policy? |
| Date: | 2009-07-13 00:04:56 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e0907121704g33bc91bcpdea58738b289aa87@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
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> Well, what I'm really concerned about is letting people know that we expect
> to *stop* providing update versions after 5 years.
That seems like a reasonable thing to say and you've just said it more
simply than any of your previous proposals. I suggest you just go with
the above.
> Every year, this seems to take some people by surprise.
For what it's worth I find it hard to believe anyone's really
surprised by this. Nearly all other open source projects stop
supporting old branches as soon as there's a newer branch is released.
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