On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > If we want to ensure that 8.5 development opens soon, what we have to > do is reject those two patches, revert updatable views, and finish up > the other stuff (which is all small and could likely be dealt with in > a week or two). That puts us in position to go beta by perhaps > mid-February with release perhaps on May 1. If we don't, I hereby > predict that 8.4 release will not happen before September. Trying to > deal with those late, large features will add *at least* one more > month to commitfest and *at least* one more month to beta (you think > they'll be bug-free?).
> As our new president has been reminding us, it's time to start making > hard choices. We're clearly ahead of where we were in 8.3. Any release with big features in it will take longer, whether you wait a year, or not. I think the choice here is currently between features or release schedule, but we could look at things differently and generate some other options. What would our users want? -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
