Re: Maintenance Policy?

On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I'd suggest that we publish an official policy, with the following  
> dates for "EOL":
>
> 7.4   2009-08-01
> 8.0   2010-02-01
> 8.1   2011-01-01
> 8.2   2012-01-01
> 8.3   2013-03-01
> 8.4   2014-08-01
>
> EOL would be defined as:
>
> "After the above dates, the PostgreSQL Project will not promise to  
> provide any minor (patch or update) releases of the respective  
> versions, whether for security, data loss, or any other issue.   
> Individual companies might choose to continue backporting patches to  
> earlier versions, and if they contribute these update releases we  
> will make them available.  However, after the final minor release  
> date, there is no guarantee that updates will be available and users  
> should upgrade."

It seems pretty speculative to propose end of support dates for every  
active release at this point; what if it takes us longer than planned  
to get the next few releases out?

I think we could try to set dates for the older releases.

...Robert