Re: Maintenance Policy? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Maintenance Policy?
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Msg-id 407d949e0907121704g33bc91bcpdea58738b289aa87@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Maintenance Policy?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
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> Well, what I'm really concerned about is letting people know that we expect
> to *stop* providing update versions after 5 years.

That seems like a reasonable thing to say and you've just said it more
simply than any of your previous proposals. I suggest you just go with
the above.

> Every year, this seems to take some people by surprise.

For what it's worth I find it hard to believe anyone's really
surprised by this. Nearly all other open source projects stop
supporting old branches as soon as there's a newer branch is released.

-- 
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf


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