On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:33, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
> > If that is the case, we have likely solved nothing with our movement of
> > the dates to have 8.3 be a short cycle release.
>
> The point was to move the ingration/patch review period, which we have.
> Any move-up of the actual release date is incidental.
>
> > I thought the whole goal was to try and release around july.
>
> No, what gave you that idea? When have we *ever* done a 1-month beta?
>
> If there are absolutely no beta issues we can do another 8.1 and release at
> OSCON or something. But with invasive changes like HOT a probable
> submission for 8.3, a short beta seems very optimistic.
If feature freeze is April 1st, and OSCon is July 24th, thats around 4 months
to get the release done. Given how things like the buildfarm. and our theory
that the new timeframe should help shorten the release process, I don't think
this is that unrealistic.
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
