Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release
Date
Msg-id 199912122254.RAA09994@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release
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> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > It is agreed that Feb 1st is the beta date...it will not include WAL, but
> > will be numbered v7.0, with v7.1 going BETA as soon as Vadim feels
> > prepared with the WAL code...
> 
> OK, it's decided.  Let's quit arguing.
> 
> > On Feb 1st, the CVS repository will be branched, like we did on the last
> > release, so that we can beta/debug 7.0 *without* interfering with
> > development on 7.1.  This has proven to work quite well with v6.5.x,
> 
> Actually, I thought what worked well was to postpone the branch as long
> as possible.  Double-patching is no fun...

Ditto.  Look at the 6_5 branch and you will see it was done far into the
6.5 release, not at the 6.5.0 release.  I don't want to continue
mentioning this for every release.

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