Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release

2009/4/1 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:
> Actually, we have four basic theme ideas:
>
> 1) Smarter PG: more ability to develop "smart" applications on PG (David)
>    Pro: It's what we do as a project
>    Con: very similar to our theme last year
>
> 2) Fastest Developing Database: putting out a release *every* year, no
> matter what (Josh)
>    Pro: timely, given issues with other DBMSes
>    Con: very similar to our theme last year

Making a combination:

Releases every year, gives to developers more tools and advantages as
the (market|needs)? grows, with a wide array of features

> 3) Maturity: After many years of development, PG has become feature-complete
> in many areas. (Bruce)
>    Pro: accurate
>    Con: "maturity" ~ "stagnation"
>
> 4) BI/OLAP: focus on Windowing/Recursive.
>    Pro: industry buzzword-compliant
>    Con: don't have rest of toolset (Cube,etc.), ignores several major
> features.
>
>
> Given these, I'd think that combining (1) and (2) would probably be our best
> route.  Thoughts?
>
> --Josh
>
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