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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
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Msg-id 5569C4FD.9090504@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 05/30/2015 06:11 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> 2017?  Really?  Is there any need for that hyperbole?
>>
>> Frankly, based on how I feel now, I would have no problem doing 9.5 in
>> 2016 and saying we have a lot of retooling to do.  We could say we have
>> gotten too far out ahead of ourselves and we need to regroup and
>> restructure the code.
>
> Actually, barrelling ahead to get releases out is how we got into this
> mess in the first place.  I would vote we put the 9.5 release on hold
> while we do an honest assessment of where we are.  In hindsight, we
> should have known to do this even before 9.4 was released.
>

It seems that we all are forgetting one of the fundamental concepts of 
open source development:

Q. When will release X be?
A. When it is done.

A delay because of quality concerns shows the integrity of the project.

Sincerely,

JD


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