Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Monday is a back-branch release wrap day.
> How can I get the information about release wrap day? The minor
> release dates are mentioned on the website [1], but this information
> is not available. Do we keep it some-fixed number of days before
> minor release?
Yes, we've been using the same release schedule for years. The
actual tarball wrap is always on a Monday --- if I'm doing it,
as is usually the case, I try to get it done circa 2100-2300 UTC.
There's a "quiet period" where we discourage nonessential commits
both before (starting perhaps on the Saturday) and after (until
the releases are tagged in git, about 24 hours after wrap).
The delay till public announcement on the Thursday is so the
packagers can produce their builds. Likewise, the reason for
a wrap-to-tag delay is in case the packagers find anything that
forces a re-wrap, which has happened a few times.
regards, tom lane
