Re: stable snapshots...

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I just noticed that the tarballs in /pub/snapshot/stable/ on 
> ftp.postgresql.org were still serving REL8_3_STABLE.
> I have now fixed the script generating them but I wonder if we should start 
> naming the directory in a more sensible way (like /pub/snapshot/stable/8.3 
> and /pub/snapshot/stable/8.4,...) and also provide stable tarballs for more 
> than just the latest version.
>
> comments?

Not sure about the usefulness of the extra stable tarballs ... doesn't 
most of the back patching happen just as we are about to release the new 
versions?  so the 'snapshot' will get a timestamp update, but no changes?

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