Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:34:59 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> We have tried the short release cycle before, it was called 8.2. It
>> fails, remarkably.

> I think this is a bit of revisionsit history.

JD got the release number wrong, it was 8.3, but otherwise there's no
revisionism involved:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00786.php

The theme that our release cycles are too long is not exactly new,
of course, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-05/msg00574.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-06/msg00766.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-11/msg00889.php
but by now I think we've learned to stop banging our heads against
that particular rock.  One-year major cycles work for this project,
shorter ones are wishful thinking.
        regards, tom lane