Greg Stark wrote: > They basically don't do any integration testing and leave that up to > the distributions now. Instead they have an "rc" release *every week* > like clockwork and every 2-3 months the last one becomes a new version > regardless of whether there's any notable new feature.
They have a two week "merge period" during which all patches of any importance are merged. The RCs are released after that, and they are supposed to include only bugfixes to the merged patches. Some things are still merged after the merge window is closed, but they are very few. They release as many RCs as are necessary to close the majority of bugs/regressions. So yeah, they have some of the "time-based" nature, but they also use the "when it's ready" philosophy a lot. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
