From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Version differences
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:18:21 -0700
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Dave Page wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>>> Personally, I believe we should only talk about the "latest" release on
>>>> the front page and have "older releases" linked.
>>> Disagree - we should be linking to the latest point releases of each
>>> supported branch. Many people just can't do a major upgrade every year.
>> Well sure, we are one of them ;). I am not saying hide the older
>> releases but you don't see stuff about RHEL 3 (which is still supported)
>> on redhat's front page.
>
> No, but then you pay a lot of money for their auto-upgrade service to
> tell you that updates are available for RHEL3...
pgsql-announce :)
Seriously. People upgrade when they feel like it, how many times do we see:
"I am running 8.1.4..., I know, I know, can you just help with this?".
I think we are wasting valuable real estate keeping the older releases
on the front page.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> /D
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