Re: 8.0.X and the ARC patent

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> >> Yea, probably September, but you can't dump a huge feature on us in
> >> August either without having talked about it first, so knowing the date
> >> might not be that helpful.
>
> > I thought we were looking at a 12-18 month cycle for 8.1? Which would put
> > beta around January '06, no?
>
> Although we've dropped the idea of letting the ARC problem drive a very
> short 8.1 cycle, I would still like to see us shoot for a relatively
> short 8.1 cycle --- less than a year for sure. The main reason is that
> I think we'll be flushing out performance and feature issues in the
> Windows port that we cannot reasonably back-patch into 8.0.*. PITR also.
> In general it seems to me that 8.1 will need to have a consolidation and
> fill-in-the-blanks flavor after what we did for 8.0, and that will be
> helped by a shorter devel cycle.
>
> As a proposal: feature freeze maybe early summer (June or July), beta
> maybe Aug/Sep, final as always "when it's ready" (maybe Oct/Nov with
> a good tailwind).

That is fine with me too. Let's see how mush 8.0 fixing we need in 8.1
and that will help determine the cutoff date, as will completed features
that we want to get into a public release.

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