From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Maintenance Policy? |
Date: | 2009-07-07 19:14:54 |
Message-ID: | 4A539EAE.6050702@dunslane.net |
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> One thing I think we really should do is give prominent public notice
>> of any EOL for a branch. At least a couple of months, preferably. If
>> the lifetime were absolutely fixed it might not matter so much, but
>> as it isn't I think we owe that to our users.
>
> Perhaps a maintenance page on the site with a table for each version
> of PostgreSQL, in reverse chronological order, showing the initial
> release date and the date of last supported release (anticipated,
> perhaps, to be something like Sept 1 for 7.4).
>
> So something like:
>
> branch | released | curr_version | curr_date | final_date
> --------+------------+--------------+------------+------------
> 8.4 | 2009-07-01 | 8.4.0 | 2009-07-01 |
> 8.3 | 2008-02-04 | 8.3.7 | 2009-03-16 |
> 8.2 | 2006-12-05 | 8.2.13 | 2009-03-16 |
> 8.1 | 2005-11-08 | 8.1.17 | 2009-03-16 |
> 8.0 | 2005-01-19 | 8.0.21 | 2009-03-16 |
> 7.4 | 2003-11-17 | 7.4.25 | 2009-03-16 | 2009-09-01 (projected)
> 7.3 | 2002-11-27 | 7.3.21 | 2008-01-07 | 2008-01-07
> 7.2 | 2002-02-04 | 7.2.8 | 2005-05-09 | 2005-05-09
> 7.1 | 2001-04-13 | 7.1.3 | 2001-08-15 | 2001-08-15
> 7.0 | 2000-05-08 | 7.0.3 | 2000-11-11 | 2000-11-11
>
>
Yeah, nice. I was thinking of a press release when we EOL a branch as well.
cheers
andrew
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