is there a reason why we can't follow a similar 4+3 life cycle?
packagers r produced for the first 4y after .0 release and only source
updates for year 5 thru 7?
if we could advertise such on the web, there would be no question as
to when bug reports are accepted (n+4y) and when only security ... and
after y7, it's just not supported at all ...
that would kill packager requirements on 8.0, 8.1 (as of last month)
and totally kill 7.4 as of nov '10
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On 2009-12-01, at 14:33, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>> What are RedHats "EOL" dates for the various releases?
>
> Dave already mentioned a public page for that:
> http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
>
> Based on track record so far, Red Hat isn't going to care about
> anything
> but high-priority security issues towards the end of the life cycle,
> but theoretically I'm on the hook till 2014 for 8.1.x.
>
> regards, tom lane