Re: Releasing in September

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Releasing in September
Date: 2016-01-20 22:40:20
Message-ID: 20160120224020.GB31913@momjian.us
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:59:59PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > My feeble attempts at alleviating this problem a bit are adding more
> > testing and removing outdated functionality, but both of those are also
> > incredibly abuse-prone activities.
>
> I think that we've learned some lessons from the problems with 9.3. I
> don't think that one of those lessons was "take more time to release".
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> There is reason to doubt that that would have changed matters one bit
> with 9.3. It might be a good idea to formally state what those lessons
> are.

I do think that is effectively a lesson we learned, wrong or not.

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