On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:23:38PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote: > > Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long while, > > because Red Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a > > long way away yet. The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3 > > releases before that. But I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long > > as the patches are in our CVS we may as well put out a release". > > Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official > policies on this type of thing.
I see this as an excellent reason to draw a bright, sharp line between what vendors support and what the community as a whole does, especially where individual community members wear another hat. > If Sun decided they wanted to maintain 7.2 and were going to > dedicate developers and testing for it, would we really turn that > away? If any company chooses to support versions that the community is no longer supporting, that can be part of their value-add or more properly, their headache. Making commitments on behalf of the community--which will be held responsible for them no matter what happens--based on what some company says it's going to do this week is *extremely* ill-advised. > OK, I don't really want to have this discussion again, but as of now > I think we are all agreed that 7.2 is unsupported. And it's good that we're making more definite moves to show that we no longer support it :) > > We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I agree > > there ought to be something about it on the website. > > > > We've been kicking it around but haven't moved much on this... > > Marc, can you move the 7.2 branches in the FTP under the OLD directory? > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ > > We need to do the same with 7.2 documentation, moving them into the Manual > Archive http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive.html. We can also > change the caption on the main documentation page to note these are manuals > for the current supported versions. Excellent :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
