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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:02:24 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> By chance I happened to notice in the release notes
>
> Release 7.3
> Release date: 2002-11-27
>
> Man, it feels like a long time since that came out...
5 years was a long time ago :)
>
> There has been some discussion of making a project policy of dropping
> support for old releases after five years. Should we consider
> formally instituting that?
Yes.
>
> I see that there are two or three minor bug fixes in the REL7_3_STABLE
> branch since 7.3.20. Rather than just leaving those to rot, maybe the
> actual policy should be "only one more update after 8.3 comes out".
>
> Comments, opinions?
Release 7.3.21 with and EOL addendum :). E.g; this is the last release
of 7.3 and 7.3 is now considered unsupported.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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