Re: EOL for 7.4?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2009/11/3 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
>>
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> We had a discussion back in July about our maintenance policy and the
>>> upshot of that discussion was that there were relatively few
>>> objections to dropping support for 7.4 - I believe Andrew Dunstan was
>>> the only one who spoke against it, and it wasn't clear how strenuous
>>> his objections were - but there were objections even to setting an
>>> end-of-life date for any subsequent release. However, we never really
>>> took any action based on that conversation. Maybe it's time?
>>>
>> I don't object to EOLing 7.4, although I have a certain nostalgia for it ... it's the first release that contains anything of mine in it ;-)
>>
>> What I want is a proper process for declaring an EOL, though. In particular, we should announce it loudly and well in advance (by which I mean several months). The PR team should swing into action with a press release along the lines of "PostgreSQL release version n.n. will reach the end of its maintenance life on yyyy-mm-dd. No patches of any kind will be made after that date. Users of this version are advised to start planning now to upgrade to a more modern version."
>
> Didn't we discuss EOLing based on <number of previous versions>? As in
> if we now announced that 7.4 would EOL when we release 8.5?
>
> (Though based on previous track record, that means it really should've
> been EOLed when we released 8.4, I guess)

Indeed I recall that at least once the plan was to EOL 7.4 with the
release of 8.4(or rather keeping a max of 5 active release branches) but
I guess we kinda forgot about that :)

Stefan