On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
marcelo zen escribió:
I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and not when
the calendar year mandates it.
It seems like a terrible idea.
But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not
unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody
even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter,
unacceptable failure of our release team.
It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07.
Others have commented in this thread that the idea seems ridiculous, and
I concur. But the reason is not what you say. The reason, I think, is
that for years we spent months each time debating what to name the next
release; and only recently, in version 10, we decided to change our
numbering scheme so that these pointless discussions are gone for good.
To think that just three years after that we're going to waste months
again discussing the same topic ...? Surely not.
Agreed, and personally I do not see enough benefit from moving to 20.X
or 2020.X for it to be worth re-opening this discussion. The bikeshed is
already painted.
Andreas
