Re: How can we get the word out about the change in version numbering?

On 08/15/2016 04:32 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2016-08-15 4:21 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> If you'd somehow missed it, we are going from three-part to two-part
>> version numbers.  That is, the next release is 9.6.0, but the major
>> release after that is 10.0.  10.1 will be the first patch release on
>> version 10.
>>
>> This means that we have a year to make sure that every driver author and
>> every body who has some hackish script parsing the version number scheme
>> finds out about it -- before 10.0 is released.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> 1.  Well for starters I would include that as a footnote in every
> release announcement related to 9.6 from now on.  Say that 9.6 is the
> last major version using the old version scheme and that the next major
> version will use the new scheme, and that people should be getting
> prepared for it.  This is the low hanging fruit I think.

That's a good idea, and easily done.

> 2.  Directly contact all the major repackagers of Postgres including
> major Linux distros to ensure they know this change is coming so that
> their yum/apt/etc dependency graphs and their wrapper system scripts
> handle this change appropriately.

That's already been done.

> 3.  Directly contact all the major programming languages' database
> driver maintainers so they know about this.

That hasn't been approached; any volunteers to help?

> 4.  Directly contact major cloud providers that provide Postgres as a
> service so they properly distinguish major/minor properly, including eg
> Amazon.

Amazon, Heroku, Compose.io, who else?

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Josh Berkus
Red Hat OSAS
(any opinions are my own)