On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 23:09 +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:23:06 -0500 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > > > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:32:17 -0800 Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > > > > > >> 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. > > >> > > > > > > I know several customers who decided to move from 7.3 only after the > > > EOL was announced. If 7.3 would not has see an EOL, they would never > > > ever have moved to a newer version. > > > > > > > > > Nobody that I have seen is arguing against EOLing 7.4. > > True. But as Josh pointed out: some people/projects/companies need > more "motivation" to actually consider an upgrade at all.
We have discussed in the past EOLing 7.4 I thought at the end of this year. IMO 7.4 and 8.0 both need to be EOL. Can we just set a date and call it good? March 31st sounds good. Let's write up a quick announcement, add the letters EOL to the download pages and call it good. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
