Re: Maintenance Policy?

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> I'd personally be perfectly happy with a community decision to desupport
>> 7.4 now, or perhaps after the next set of update releases (which we're
>> probably overdue for, BTW).  We cannot support an indefinitely large set
>> of back branches, and a five-year lifespan seems about right to me.
>
> I had kind of thought it was five active versions, which translates to 
> more or less the same thing. In that case, 7.4 would shortly be 
> dropped. So I ask:
>
> 1. Should 7.4 be dropped after the release of 7.4.26?
>
> 2. Should there be an articulated, published maintenance policy? Or, 
> at least, a prominent list saying, "these are the versions we actively 
> support as of now"?
>
>

One thing I think we really should do is give prominent public notice of 
any EOL for a branch. At least a couple of months, preferably. If the 
lifetime were absolutely fixed it might not matter so much, but as it 
isn't I think we owe that to our users.

cheers

andrew