Re: Upcoming PG re-releases

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:23:38PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long while,
> > because Red Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a
> > long way away yet.  The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3
> > releases before that.  But I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long
> > as the patches are in our CVS we may as well put out a release".
>
> Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official
> policies on this type of thing.

I see this as an excellent reason to draw a bright, sharp line between
what vendors support and what the community as a whole does,
especially where individual community members wear another hat.

> If Sun decided they wanted to maintain 7.2 and were going to
> dedicate developers and testing for it, would we really turn that
> away?

If any company chooses to support versions that the community is no
longer supporting, that can be part of their value-add or more
properly, their headache.  Making commitments on behalf of the
community--which will be held responsible for them no matter what
happens--based on what some company says it's going to do this week is
*extremely* ill-advised.

> OK, I don't really want to have this discussion again, but as of now
> I think we are all agreed that 7.2 is unsupported.

And it's good that we're making more definite moves to show that we no
longer support it :)

> > We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I agree
> > there ought to be something about it on the website.
> >
>
> We've been kicking it around but haven't moved much on this...
>
> Marc, can you move the 7.2 branches in the FTP under the OLD directory?
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
>
> We need to do the same with 7.2 documentation, moving them into the Manual
> Archive http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive.html.  We can also
> change the caption on the main documentation page to note these are manuals
> for the current supported versions.

Excellent :)

Cheers,
D
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