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

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?
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Msg-id 48D531A4.1060208@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Do we really need a 7.4.22 release now?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> +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.

Are we ready enough to actually put a *timeline* on the website?
Meaning, can we already put in preliminary dates for *all* released
versions?

//Magnus



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