Re: State of support for back PG branches

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> If we want to have some sort of fixed policy for support lifespan, I
>> would suggest it be like "X amount of time after the release of the
>> following major version".  But X probably has to depend on how big
>> the compatibility gotchas are in the following version, so we're still
>> really talking about a judgment call here.
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> I'm not sure that that's going to help users much. I should think around 
> 3 years (or some such predictable period) is a reasonable lifetime goal 
> for a piece of software like this, accompanied by some weasel words. 
> Maybe something like this would do: "We will attempt to maintain support 
> of each major version for 3 years after its release, although this will 
> not always be possible. After that time any major support requirement is 
> likely to result in support being ended."

This sounds reasonable to me ... I think it is more then most software 
projects do, isn't it?

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