Re: Release cycle length

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Release cycle length
Date: 2003-11-18 13:18:27
Message-ID: 20031118131827.GD30809@wolff.to
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 20:08:41 -0500,
Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > The time from release 7.3 to release 7.4 was 355 days, an all-time
> > high. We really need to shorten that.
>
> Why is that?

End users will find it useful.

I started using 7.4 from CVS early on because check constraints for domains
were available.

With a long release cycle you have to wait a long time to get any of
the features in a release when some of them may have been developed
early in the release cycle.

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