On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Time was that we had a major release every 3 or 4 months. As the
> project matures I think it's appropriate for the cycle to get slower: a
> lot of low-hanging fruit is gone, so we have larger jobs to tackle, plus
> users are using PG for larger databases and don't want to face
> major-version changes too often. But I don't want it to get to be a
> year on average between releases, at least not yet. 8 or 9 months seems
> reasonable, and by that standard we're overdue.
Note that with how we've been releasing 'minors' on v7.3.x semi-regularly,
slippage isn't *as* big an issue as it could have been ...
