Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?
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Msg-id 48D52A1C.9000305@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Responses Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> The suggestion I started this thread with amounted to not bothering with
>> pushing 7.4.x updates in update cycles where we'd made no "serious" bug
>> fixes in it; which is a very long way from desupport.  Maybe an
>> appropriate compromise is to announce now that 7.4 is in maintenance
>> mode and will receive only really critical bug fixes (which are the only
>> ones that 7.4.x users are going to pay attention to anyway, so nothing
>> is lost); and that actual desupport will occur a year from now.
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> +1
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> Shall we set an exact date, such as October 1, 2009?

Let's include 8.0 in that announcement so we aren't having this 
discussion again in a year.

Joshua D. Drake



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