Re: 8.5 development schedule

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Now that 8.4.0 is out the door, development for 8.5devel will be opened any
> > day now. But we haven't discussed the development timeline so far. The core
> > team has several proposals:
> > [ details snipped ]
>
> ISTM there are two critical decisions here: when's the first commitfest,
> and when's the target release date? There's already been considerable
> chatter about the first decision, but not much about the second.
>
> I would like to propose aiming for a release around April/May 2010 ...
> "in time for PGCon" if you like, but the main point is to have it out
> before people start disappearing for summer break. We've already run
> into problems with scheduling the 8.4 release because of that.

I generally agree with this however why not just have a "When it is
done?". Let's hit some commitfests and some time near the end of the
year start discussing Beta and release.

We are not a company. We don't have a deadline. Why can't we just
develop and say, "Yeah, this looks like it would make a substantive
release."?

Joshua D. Drake

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