Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Scheduale

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >Just to keep everyone in the loop at what we are looking at right now.
> >
> >RC4 - Packaged tonight, Announced Friday AM
> >Full Release - Packaged Monday Night, PR/Announce Tuesday AM
> >
> >If *anyone* is sitting on something, plesae let us know ASAP ... I'm
> >planning on packaging up RC4 tonight around 1am GMT (around
> >9pm my time,
> >around 5pm Josh's (Pacific) time, if I recall my time zone's correctly)
>
> As long as the APPDATA-files-on-win32 is finished off, I'm fine. Seems
> Tom is on that right now, so I don't doubti t will be.
>
> Just a thought - considering it's just a weekend in between, isn't the
> time between RC4 and release a little bit on the shortside? I mean, not
> a lot of people will have time to test it "for real" in that time...
> While there aren't any large changes, it never hurts to be on the safe
> side?
> (Remember - there is always a bit of a delay before packagers pick it
> up. I know there is at least for the MSI package for windows, but I'm
> sure there also is for RPM etc. So people running off those will have
> even less time to test..)
> I'm definitly not saying drag this out a long time, but perhaps two more
> days or so?

I agree Magnus has a point here. We just did major changes for Win32
configuration file locations and it seems it is a mistake to not have
sufficient time for testing and to see if something else comes up.

I think we should shoot for the end of next week.

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