Re: Unclear EOL - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Jonathan S. Katz
Subject Re: Unclear EOL
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Msg-id 263f7ba4-9320-e007-0db9-2d02aab1ee61@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Unclear EOL  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Unclear EOL  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On 9/18/18 11:18 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> +The PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases a new major version
> containing
> +new features about once a year. Each major version receives bug fixes
> and, if
> +need be, <a href="/support/security/">security</a> fixes that are
> released every three months in what we call a
> +"minor release." For more information on the minor release schedule,
> you can
> +view the <a href="/developer/roadmap/">minor release roadmap</a>.
>
>
> That needs to be "at least every three months". We sometimes release
> more often.
>
>  
>
>
>     The one thing that is not included is making "EOL Month" => "Expected
>     Last Release" - currently this is set dynamically by
>     "core.Version.eoldate"
>
>     AFAICT this is only used in one place, on this page, and perhaps we can
>     re-purpose it to reflect "Expected Last Release"
>
>
> Yes, that's the only thing it's used for. So you should be able to keep
> using that one, just stop truncating the output to month level in the
> template.

Thanks for the feedback. I have pushed the patch.

Jonathan


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