Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches
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Msg-id CAMT0RQSB2aqXm_9sJMu-hasZTcGigwN=E1Zv2F8DEQkWmc6jtw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > I was having a discussion regarding out-of-support branches and effort
> > to keep them building, but could not for the life of me find any actual
> > documented policy (although I distinctly remember that we do something...).
> > Is the policy written down somewhere, or is it only project lore? In
> > either case, what is the actual policy?
>
> I believe our policy was set in this thread:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2923349.1634942313%40sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> and you're right that it hasn't really been memorialized anywhere
> else.  I'm not sure where would be appropriate.

Not absolutely sure, but would at least adding a page to PostgreSQL
Wiki about this make sense ?

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Hannu



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