[postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page

[Paul Ramsey]

Better than front page. You’re not a user, you’re on the PSC :)
P.

> On Mar 29, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> Hmm I guess it's the first bit of information I want to know as a user.  I'm always looking for the PostgreSQL EOL page on the front page and can never find it so I always have to search for it.
> 
> How about this:  We move it to the source page which has plenty of real-estate 
> 
> http://postgis.net/source/
> 
> And then in every release we do, we remind people we have an EOL policy and what is just axed or about to be axed.
> 
> How's that for a plan?
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:44 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page
> 
> I don't know that it belongs smack on the front page necessarily....
> is this really such a front-and-center piece of information that we want to dedicate above-the-fold real estate to it?
> P.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>> Since I heard no complaints, I created a section on PostGIS front page "PostGIS version compatibility and EOL policy" with link to our compatibility matrix page.
>> 
>> If anyone has any suggested changes, feel free to mention them and they'll probably be added.
>> 
>> http://postgis.net/
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:26 PM
>> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page
>> 
>> Some more visibility around initial release dates for various versions would help improve communications around EOL. I can kind of do the math and say that it's probably 3-4 years old, but it would be nice to have than solid in the matrix, that the 2.2.0 release was on date X.
>> P.
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>>> Come to think of it maybe that page is sufficient for our versioning 
>>> policy and we just need to make more prominent and grey out all versions EOL'd.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not sure how to grey out cells in Wiki format, but for starters I put 
>>> in EOL in header and will link to website on home page.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
>>> Behalf Of Darafei "Kom?pa" Praliaskouski
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:49 PM
>>> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [postgis-users] EOL page
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Can we add more visibility to this page and gray out unsupported 
>>> configurations in matrix?
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostgreSQLPostGIS
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ??, 27 ???. 2018 ?. ? 19:34, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>:
>>> 
>>> Someone pointed out on IRC there is no easy way to determine when a 
>>> PostGIS version is EOL'd.  He was looking for us to patch 2.1 and I 
>>> said NO cause that's EOL'd.
>>> 
>>> Anyway to make it clear, I was going to create an EOL on postgis.net 
>>> page similar to what
>>> 
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>>> 
>>> In addition, just like PostgreSQL group  I'm going to mandate a 
>>> future EOL for those we still support.
>>> 
>>> Anyone have issues with me setting up such a page and making such 
>>> godly decisions about future EOLS :)
>>> 
>>> +1 if you are okay with it -1 if you are not.
>>> 
>>> And of course I expect at least PSC folks to vote, others can vote too.
>>> I'll jump as soon as I see 2 +1s from PSC and no -1s.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Regina
>>> 
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