Re: Development schedule

Bruce Momjian said:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> > Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> If this were an ordinary devel cycle then I'd be fine with it
>> >> running a year, but I think we really do need to plan for a shorter
>> >> than normal cycle so we can clean up 8.0 kinks in a reasonably
>> >> timely fashion.
>>
>> > Let's see how much 8.0 cleanup we need. At this point I haven't
>> > seen any major things needing cleanup.
>>
>> However, people are asking us for a schedule target now; "wait and
>> see" isn't the answer they need. My feeling is that we should bet on
>> there being some issues, rather than bet on there not being any.
>
> Uh, they want to know now?

YES! Yes yes yes! I try to plan my time, and the feature freeze data is very
important in that planning.

Also, regardless of the issues Tom raised, 18 months is too long a release
cycle, IMNSHO. If you do that and you take the time from feature freeze of
release n to release date of release n+1, a developer could wait 2 years
from the date of submission to see his/her feature in a release. 2 years is
an eternity in this game. Just my $0.02 worth.

cheers

andrew