On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Deciding "WHAT goes in the next release?" is what Committers do, by
> definition.
>
> It seems strange to have a different mailing list for "WHEN is the next
> release needed?", so those two things should be combined.
Core team members have sometimes taken the position that this is
already so; that releases should be discussed on pgsql-hackers and
pgsql-security as appropriate to the driver. In theory, this may be
fine, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be working very well right
now.
> Packagers should be about "HOW do we make the next release", which is
> separate from the above.
>
> Ultimately, "How" effects "When", but "When is it needed?" is an earlier
> thought.
+1. Completely agreed.
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