Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
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Msg-id 20150529200734.GE16602@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 04:01:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> >> I am unclear if we are anywhere near ready for beta1 even in June.  Are
> >> we?
> 
> > I'm all about having that discussion...  but can we do it on another
> > thread or at least wait til we've decided about the back-branch
> > releases?  They are clearly the more important issue to consider.
> 
> It's the same discussion though, ie what releases are we expecting to
> get out in the next couple of weeks.

Agreed.  If we want to put out beta1 before PGCon, I need to start on
the release notes on Monday.

> It's possible that we ought to give up on a pre-conference beta.
> Certainly a whole lot of time that I'd hoped would go into reviewing
> 9.5 feature commits has instead gone into back-branch bug chasing this
> week.

Based on what has transpired in the past two weeks, I am thinking we
need to move _slower_, not faster.  I am concerned we have focused so
much on new features that we have taken our eye off of reliability.

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