X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48EB9DCD2F; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06356-02; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F139DCCB2; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:00 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC0F26EAF3; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:00 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05623-09; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:58 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC5126D83C; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:56 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 811383DBE0; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB4B39933; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:57 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:30:57 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Robert Treat cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane , Andrew Dunstan Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases In-Reply-To: <200511301323.38351.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <20051130143042.I1077@ganymede.hub.org> References: <26656.1133366185@sss.pgh.pa.us> <438DCFB7.3040000@dunslane.net> <27165.1133368830@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200511301323.38351.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.557 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.557] X-Spam-Score: 0.557 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/209 X-Sequence-Number: 8924 Done, as well as moved all but the last two of each version after ... On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote: > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:40, Tom Lane wrote: >> Personally I expect to keep supporting 7.3 for a long while, because Red >> Hat pays me to ;-) ... and the EOL date for RHEL3 is a long way away yet. >> The PG community may stop bothering with 7.3 releases before that. But >> I think Marc and Bruce figure "as long as the patches are in our CVS we >> may as well put out a release". >> > > Yeah, thats one of the reasons I am skeptical about having official policies > on this type of thing. If Sun decided they wanted to maintain 7.2 and were > going to dedicate developers and testing for it, would we really turn that > away? OK, I don't really want to have this discussion again, but as of now I > think we are all agreed that 7.2 is unsupported. > >> We hashed all this out in the pghackers list back in August, but I agree >> there ought to be something about it on the website. >> > > We've been kicking it around but haven't moved much on this... > > Marc, can you move the 7.2 branches in the FTP under the OLD directory? > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ > > We need to do the same with 7.2 documentation, moving them into the Manual > Archive http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive.html. We can also > change the caption on the main documentation page to note these are manuals > for the current supported versions. > > -- > Robert Treat > Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664