From: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, marcelo zen <mzen(at)itapua(dot)com(dot)uy> |
Cc: | Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20? |
Date: | 2020-02-12 13:52:53 |
Message-ID: | 9c38c71f-3828-67b0-17cd-704e1321bfb6@proxel.se |
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On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> marcelo zen escribió:
>> I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and not when
>> the calendar year mandates it.
>> It seems like a terrible idea.
>
> But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not
> unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
> to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody
> even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter,
> unacceptable failure of our release team.
It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07.
> Others have commented in this thread that the idea seems ridiculous, and
> I concur. But the reason is not what you say. The reason, I think, is
> that for years we spent months each time debating what to name the next
> release; and only recently, in version 10, we decided to change our
> numbering scheme so that these pointless discussions are gone for good.
> To think that just three years after that we're going to waste months
> again discussing the same topic ...? Surely not.
Agreed, and personally I do not see enough benefit from moving to 20.X
or 2020.X for it to be worth re-opening this discussion. The bikeshed is
already painted.
Andreas
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