| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 8.5 release timetable, again |
| Date: | 2009-08-27 22:08:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20090827220808.GP11213@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Robert Haas escribió:
> Of course I don't think we'd actually need to start a CommitFest quite
> as quickly as we did this time, because with a shorter release cycle
> there ought to be a lot less patches already accumulated by the time
> we release, especially if there are clearly defined tasks for
> developers to do during the beta period. On the other hand, 8.4beta
> was arguably too short, since we missed some serious problems, so the
> picture above may be a bit too rosy.
Maybe what this says is that we need to get a "pre-beta" release out as
early as possible, just after finalizing the last commitfest, and before
the "open items" and Bruce-approved release note writing are sorted out.
Probably the last alpha release will fill that role. Sadly, the greek
folk did not consider having a letter between alpha and beta :-(
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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