Re: EOL for 7.4?

daveg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:22:01AM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> >
> > Really I think you guys are on the wrong track trying to map Postgres
> > releases to commercial support terms. None of the Postgres releases
> > are "supported" in the sense that there's no warranty and no promises,
> > it's all best effort. If you want a promise of anything then pay
> > someone for that service.
> >
> > As with any open source software if you're running 7-year-old versions
> > of the software you can't seriously expect the developers to take any
> > interest in bugs you discover which don't affect current releases.
> > Other projects don't release back branches at all. The most the
> > developers are likely to do if your bugs require serious engineering
> > is declare that the version you're using is too old.
>
> Claiming to support versions that are "too old" is giving users a false
> sense of comfort. Encouraging users to use these versions is actually
> harming them as when this happens they will be stuck with either living
> with the bug or doing an immediate unplanned upgrade.
>
> I suggest we announce now that both 7.4 and 8.0 will EOL when 8.5 is expected
> to ship, or to comfort those who never use .0 versions when 8.5.1 ships.

I question whether it makes sense to EOL a version just to encourage
people to upgrade --- that logic really seems beyond our scope. It
might be practical to do it, but I see it taking us in a direction that
we might want to avoid.

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