Re: Maintenance Policy?

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"?

Thanks,

David