Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 8.4 release planning
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Msg-id 200901290140.n0T1eb606537@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 8.4 release planning  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> I'm a bit shocked by how long Tom expects the release cycle to take even if we
> froze the code today. I guess I forget how long it takes and how many steps
> there are from past releases. If it's going to be 9+ months between Nov 1st
> and the first commitfest I'm worried about how many patches will be
> languishing in the queue with their authors having moved on to other more
> fruitful pastures in the mean time. If we delay further we're talking about
> close to a year with developers left hanging.

What makes the period long are the many things we don't know are
broken in CVS, but we know we will find before the final release.

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