Tom,
> The front end of the list seems a bit bizarre too. You won't know nine
> weeks out just when the release is going to happen.
Nope. You have to start that far out from the earliest release date,
and be ready ahead of time. For 8.2 that meant that the press release
was ready a month before PostgreSQL was, but for 8.1 we were barely in
time because of the short beta.
--Josh