Re: 9.2 release notes, beta time? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: 9.2 release notes, beta time?
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Msg-id CA+TgmobgZs-FjcUoEg+h=WV-SX0GRneNUqiMnmTDwH7UihdfKA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 9.2 release notes, beta time?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> When do you think we will be ready for 9.2
>>> beta?
>
>> Well, we've got a bunch of open issues, but most of them don't look
>> *too* serious.  If everyone dropped what they're doing and worked on
>> them, I think we could be done in 2 weeks, but realistically I think
>> it's likely to take 1-2 months.
>
> Well, I would sure like to see a beta out sooner than that.  I don't
> think we necessarily have to resolve every known open issue before
> we put out beta1.  I believe we do need to resolve anything that would
> force initdb (such as Peter's bytea_agg change), and of course we need
> to write release notes so that beta testers know what to test.

Fair enough.

> At the same time, I'd like to light a fire under people to deal with
> the open issues.  I agree that it will take some time for all of
> them to get dealt with, but it doesn't help if the responsible hackers
> are procrastinating.

The joys of an all-volunteer project.  :-)

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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