From: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Version differences
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:18:52 +0100
Message-ID: <46BC73CC.2080002@postgresql.org> (raw)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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.
Thats why we put it there - to help tell people they need to upgrade.
/D
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