Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
Date: 2003-06-21 14:51:43
Message-ID: 20030621115037.R51411@hub.org
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Time was that we had a major release every 3 or 4 months. As the
> project matures I think it's appropriate for the cycle to get slower: a
> lot of low-hanging fruit is gone, so we have larger jobs to tackle, plus
> users are using PG for larger databases and don't want to face
> major-version changes too often. But I don't want it to get to be a
> year on average between releases, at least not yet. 8 or 9 months seems
> reasonable, and by that standard we're overdue.

Note that with how we've been releasing 'minors' on v7.3.x semi-regularly,
slippage isn't *as* big an issue as it could have been ...

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