Simon, > Why are we not even willing to ask > whether someone is willing? It all seems very strange to me.
Mostly because, I think, nobody can picture how this would be structured or where the people would come from. Surely a "7.4 maintainer" would do only one platform? Or only source? Can we call 7.4 a "maintained" version if it's only patched for Debian? Also, given the other needs we have for technical skills, this would depend on finding people who were good enough to put out stable packages for 7.4, but wasn't interested in contributing to the project in any other way. If these people are available for other tasks, we'd *far* rather have them testing 8.5, reviewing code, updating drivers, writing docs, making tools, etc. So I don't think that anyone is opposed to your proposal, they just don't (or at least I don't) see a practical way to pursue it. --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers