Re: Unclear EOL

On 9/5/18 3:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
>> On 09/05/2018 03:04 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>>> The point is that 9.3 supposedly goes out of support in November 2018
>>> but the EOL Month is September, two months earlier.  If it truly ended
>>> in September the August release we just made would be the final one.
>>> But now that its September the next one is final but won't happen for 2
>>> months.
>
>> Yeah, I missed that on the versioning page. The thing is that the minor
>> release schedule is a suggestion that can be broken for security/severe
>> bug reasons. Counting on a fixed period after the EOL month is sort of
>> liking counting on stoppage time in football(soccer) to be a known value
>> ahead of time. I for one would not put money on it:)
>
> Right, it would be a mistake to modify this table on the basis of the
> current schedule for minor releases. Given the policy explanation above
> the table, I think it's fine as-is ... though I agree with David that
> the column heading should be "EOL month" not "EOL date", because "EOL
> month" is the term used in the explanation.
>
> Personally I'd also s/full support/support/ in the second para, because
> it gives the impression that we have more than one level of "support"
> for back branches. We don't.

Applied above suggestions to the page, with a couple of other clarifying
tweaks.

Thanks,

Jonathan