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Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-10-02T19:15:33Z
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:47:06 -0700,
  "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  Possible scenario for maintaining 7.3:
> 
>  Only one or two committers  using a two stage cvs... one stage for 
> testing (not including sandbox), one stage for commit.
>  Scheduled releases based on non-critical fixes. Quarterly? Of course 
> critical fixes should be released as soon as plausible.
> 
>  Separate mailing list for 7.3 issues, concerns etc... Which would help 
> develop it's own temporary community.
> 
> Thoughts?

It might be better to split into two different trees. One just gets bug fixes,
the other gets bug fixes plus enhancements that won't require an initdb.