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 100EA9DCC4A; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:57:10 -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 53079-04; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 861459DD5F0; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E94526F889; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:43 -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 53132-05; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485F626F887; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:24 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BC1D3C015; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB043BDFD; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:33 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:56:33 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: David Fetter cc: Robert Treat , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane , Andrew Dunstan Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases In-Reply-To: <20051201013652.GB24009@fetter.org> Message-ID: <20051130235539.T1077@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> <20051201013652.GB24009@fetter.org> 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 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/1 X-Sequence-Number: 8942 On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, David Fetter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:23:38PM -0500, 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. > > I see this as an excellent reason to draw a bright, sharp line between > what vendors support and what the community as a whole does, > especially where individual community members wear another hat. So, if Sun, SRA, Pervasive, Command Prompt, etc were to submit a patch for v7.2, we'd refuse it? I think not ... Will we accept/fix a bug report *for* v7.2, that is different ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664