2009/11/3 Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com>: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:37 +0000, Dave Page wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> >> > Unless there are unfixable data loss bugs in it, I say we keep it. >> > >> > Many people still run it, so why make them move? >> >> There are non-trivial amounts of effort required to produce and test >> packages for each branch we maintain. That affects all of the >> packagers to varying degrees and should not be overlooked. > > I see we've already removed it from the home page anyway. > > People that are running older releases need to be able to find info > about our position with respect to earlier releases. Keeping the docs > available is important, since people may need to read up on how to dump > data so it can be upgraded. > > We need a link to "older releases" with mention something like > 7.4 Considered Stable, no tracking or fixing of new bugs > 7.3 Considered Stable, no tracking or fixing of new bugs > 7.2 Considered Unstable; upgrade immediately to avoid data loss > > Personally, I would be more inclined to keep 7.4 as a supported version > and remove support for 8.0, possibly 8.1 also. There's no need to remove > them in chronological order - we should remove them based upon whether > its sensible to maintain them further. It also helps if we can say we > support software over long periods of time; that's very important for > embedded software. >
+1 Pavel > -- > Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
