Re: pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't see the branch point for REL8_3_STABLE - has that been
>>>>> done? I thought it would happen at the same time as we tagged the
>>>>> release.
>>>>>
>>>> No, we will branch later.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Still not there.
>>>
>>> We need this to be created before buildfarm members can start testing
>>> 8.3.
>>>
>>> I still don't see why we wait to create the branch after tagging the
>>> release. There doesn't seem to be any point.
>>>
>>
>> We need an 8.3 tag, but not a branch. Is there no tag?
>>
>> We don't branch because we want to apply 8.3 fixes to CVS HEAD for a
>> while, to avoid double-patching.
>>
>>
>
> I give up. We seem to look for ways to make things more difficult
> sometimes. We are hampering the buildfarm, and keeping the tree frozen,
> and thus preventing feature commits, on the off chance that there will
> be some bug fix that we don't want to double patch. We backport fixes
> all the time. Why is it such a big deal? Are we waiting for magic pixie
> dust?
>
> When we released 8.2, my archives show that HEAD was stamped as 8.3devel
> the same day. That also doesn't seem to have been done yet, but anyway,
> the branch for _STABLE must have been done before that time.

+1 on getting the branch + stamping done ASAP.

//Magnus