Re: Release cycle length

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> > Everyone on -hackers should have been aware of it, as its always
> > discussed at the end of the previous release cycle ... and I don't think
> > we've hit a release cycle yet that has actually stayed in the 4 month
> > period :( Someone is always 'just sitting on something that is almost
> > done' at the end that pushes it further then originally planned ...
>
> I think that the core just need to be tough on it, that's all.
>
> If we have pre-published target dates, then everyone knows if they can
> get their code in or not for that date.

Right now, I believe we are looking at an April 1st beta, and a May 1st
related ... those are, as always, *tentative* dates that will become more
fine-tuned as those dates become nearer ...

April 1st, or 4 mos from last release, tends to be what we aim for with
all releases ... as everyone knows, we don't necessarily acheive it, but
...

Actually, historically, it looks like we've always been close to 12 months
between releases ... 7.0->7.1: ~11mos, 7.1->7.2: ~10mos, 7.2->7.3: ~9 mos,
and 7.3->7.4: ~12mos ... so, on average, we're dealing with an ~10mos
release cycle for the past 3 years ...

svr1# ls -l */postgresql-7.?.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 9173732 May 9 2000 v7.0/postgresql-7.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 8088678 Apr 13 2001 v7.1/postgresql-7.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 9180168 Feb 4 2002 v7.2/postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 11059455 Nov 27 2002 v7.3/postgresql-7.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pgsql pgsql 12311256 Nov 16 17:57 v7.4/postgresql-7.4.tar.gz