Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:13:15 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Of course we would still need to add an EOL page... I think one > > could make a strong argument for a static url for EOL info now > > that windows is EOL for < 8.2. > > You coul

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course we would still need to add an EOL page... I think one could make a > strong argument for a static url for EOL info now that windows is EOL for < > 8.2. You could make a strong argument for a page stating that versions thus-and-so are *already

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:23 -0300 > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > > > Is it just vaporware... maybe... but still there are pros and > > > cons of having a bland schedule for EOL and new releases. > > > > We do h

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 15:48, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:23 -0300 > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > Is it just vaporware... maybe... but still there are pros and > > > cons of having a bland schedule for EOL and n

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:23 -0300 Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > Is it just vaporware... maybe... but still there are pros and > > cons of having a bland schedule for EOL and new releases. > > We do have a schedule: > http://developer.postgresql.o

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > Is it just vaporware... maybe... but still there are pros and cons of > having a bland schedule for EOL and new releases. We do have a schedule: http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/PostgreSQL_8.4_Development_Plan -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:19:19 -0500 Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:44:30AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > wrote: > > That's why I wrote "without making it too formal" and "bland > > commitment to the release schedule...". > The problem with doing it that w

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:44:30AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > That's why I wrote "without making it too formal" and "bland > commitment to the release schedule...". The problem with doing it that way is that, when the release fails to meet the original target deadline, any coverage o

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:53:06 -0600 Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with that is that as a volunteer-run project, dates > can be off by a mile. Less than a year ago the plan was to release > 8.3 is August-September 2007. Instead it was released a week or two > ago. That's why I w

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Decibel!
On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:36:21 +0100 Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/support/security that's probably the best one you can find. Or that in combination with the news archive (http://www.postgresql.org/a

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:36:21 +0100 Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.postgresql.org/support/security > > that's probably the best one you can find. Or that in combination > with the news archive (http://www.postgresql.org/about/newsarchive) Really... without making it too

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:46:00 -0500 > "Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did manage to find an announcement about the sup

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did manage to find an announcement about the support of pg for > > windows... but I wasn't able to see anything you'd have a summary of > > scheduled

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:46:00 -0500 "Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did manage to find an announcement about the support of pg for > > windows... but I wasn't able to see anything you'd have a summar

Re: [GENERAL] end of life for pg versions...

2008-02-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did manage to find an announcement about the support of pg for > windows... but I wasn't able to see anything you'd have a summary of > scheduled and planned EOL for various pg versions (on different > platform). There h