Re: EOL for 7.4?
От | Josh Berkus |
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Тема | Re: EOL for 7.4? |
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Msg-id | 4AF07731.3020203@agliodbs.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: EOL for 7.4? (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>) |
Ответы |
Re: EOL for 7.4?
(Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: EOL for 7.4? ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>) Re: EOL for 7.4? ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>) Re: EOL for 7.4? (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>) Re: EOL for 7.4? (daveg <daveg@sonic.net>) Re: EOL for 7.4? (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
All, So I'm going to make a case in favor of EOL'ing 7.4. In fact, I'd be in favor of doing so in, say, February after an announcement this month. The main reason I'm in favor of this is that we have a lot of users using 7.4 out of inertia, and they need a message that 7.4 is "not supported" to get them to upgrade. I can think of several here in SF who have been "working on upgrade plans" for the past 3 years. An EOL is what's needed to give them a kick in the pants. The same goes for other OSS projects. There's quite a few random OSS apps which were created on PG 7.4 and have never offered their users an upgrade path (Gnuworld comes to mind). They need an EOL announcement to get them motivated to upgrade. This isn't just a matter of supporting these users; it's a matter of what new developers think of Postgres. Programmers judge PG based on the version they first encounter, and they often don't check to see if later versions exist or what features they have. We'd want to do a full publicity around this, including a "how do I upgrade" page and an "what does EOL mean for an OSS project" page. If this goes well, we could EOL 8.0 after 8.5 comes out, and thus decrease our maintenance burden. This will also create some favorable spin around how long we do keep patching stuff ... how many other OSS projects batch-fix 5 years? Also, as Greg points out, 7.4 is just waiting for some exploit which is horribly hard to backpatch for us to desupport it on short notice, and that is NOT a service to our users. --Josh Berkus
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