| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Last gasp |
| Date: | 2012-04-08 03:03:15 |
| Message-ID: | 13916.1333854195@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 04/07/2012 06:33 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I hope that that policy will not be applied without some degree of
>> discrimination.
> If we are to have time based releases, then I assume it won't, it will
> be pretty much a hard and fast rule.
> I admit I haven't been a fan in the past, but I can see advantages, not
> least being predictability of release times. It would be nice to be able
> to say "In June" when asked when the next release will be, as I often am.
Just to be clear ... I don't believe that we can have hard-and-fast
*release* dates. I am suggesting that it might be a good idea to have
a hard deadline for committing new features. But beta test phase will
take however long it takes. I don't think shaking out bugs is a
predictable process.
regards, tom lane
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