From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Maintenance Policy? |
Date: | 2009-07-13 01:07:40 |
Message-ID: | 200907130107.n6D17eH14746@momjian.us |
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > For what it's worth I find it hard to believe anyone's really
> > surprised by this. Nearly all other open source projects stop
> > supporting old branches as soon as there's a newer branch is released.
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> I'm not surprised at all. Our product holds data - and that's an
> extremely valuable resource to end users (e.g. companies). Nobody wants
> to risk problems and/or suffer long downtimes. Our complete lack of an
> in-place upgrade is what is really making us do the extra effort to support
> old versions. Thankfully, it looks like we've finally started down the
> road to a serious attempt at an upgrade process.
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> For what it's worth, I think our release history and current necessarily
> ad-hoc and somewhat arbitrary release process makes it difficult to make
> anything but the vaguest statement on dates, and I'd rather we didn't.
This might open the larger question of: What do we actually _promise_
users?
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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