On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:38:54AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 11 June 2012 18:02, Joshua Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > > Hmmm. I was assuming September, given how late the beta came out, > > and that nobody has previously talked seriously about a June > > release. I'll also point out that while there's a beta2 tarball, > > there was no announcement and no packages for it. > > > > If we decide to do June, then PR will be minimal because I was > > assuming I had another 7 weeks to prepare it. Not that that > > should be the deciding factor (it would be great to get out an > > early release and get it out of the way) but it should be taken > > into consideration. > > > Not really sure why we're discussing it. > > We've always had a long beta cycle and this seems to cut it very > short at both ends.
I'm not sure I understand how having a long beta cycle is a good thing, or even whether you're saying it is. Could you please clarify? > If we're going to have a fixed cutoff date for patches then having a > variable release date seems weird, unless it is to elongate it to fix > bugs. > > Let me put it this way: is there a benefit to changing the plan? Sure. If it's ready to go, there's no point holding it back. Downstream projects get a little extra integration time, etc. > Anyone desperate for the new features is already using them, and we're > relying upon that to throw up bugs during beta. I'm always grateful to those brave souls who "go there" with versions of PostgreSQL that aren't even beta. They're a big chunk of why it might well be OK to step toward this major release :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
