Re: Schedule for PG 18 RC and GA releases

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Schedule for PG 18 RC and GA releases
Date: 2025-09-17 18:36:03
Message-ID: aMr_k3BSu8qkdbPT@nathan
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't understand why we're always doing the list of major features
> at the absolute last possible moment. I really think that should have
> been done a month ago, if not several months, so that we could have
> appropriate time for bike-shedding before it goes into the tree and
> for messaging after it goes into the tree. Now we're sitting here with
> a placeholder in the documentation when we're supposed to wrap in 5
> days, and 2 of those are weekend days.

Agreed.

FWIW I posted a draft elsewhere [0], but I believe Jonathan intends to
propose something, too [1]. It looks like progress is being made on the
acknowledgments section as well [2]. Please let me know if there's
anything else I can do to help.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/aLO7Wv1tYUd17ZkA%40nathan
[1] https://postgr.es/m/6F09EBB5-7470-4B48-B4D5-7276D11CC77A%40postgresql.org
[2] https://postgr.es/m/flat/a49a9219-844e-489c-8f20-0d424545b6d8%40eisentraut.org

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nathan

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