Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > I am concerned about slowing down too early. We did that in previous > > > > releases and didn't get the beta focus we needed, and it was too > > > > paralyzing on people to know what is to be slowed and what to keep > > > > going. I think a slowdown two weeks before beta would be fine. > > > > > > Other then personal slow downs, there is no reason for anything to "slow > > > down" until beta itself starts ... > > > > I assume Tom doesn't want a huge patch applied the day before beta, and > > No offence to Tom, but who cares whether Tom wants a huge patch or not?
Well, he does clean up lots of breakage, so I was willing to settle on a compromise of 2 weeks. However, if other feel we should just go full-bore until beta starts, I am fine with that. I will say that I was disapointed by previous release delays and will be more vocal about moving things forward than I have in the past. > > I can understand that, but patch problems usually appear within two > > weeks of application, so I think we only have to worry about those last > > two weeks. Of course, another option is to continue in full development > > until the end of August, then start beta in September as soon as the > > code is stable. > > That kinda was the plan ... code will be frozen around the 1st of > September, with a release packaged then that will be label'd beta1 ... > regardless of how stable it is ... beta is "we're not taking any more > changes except fixes, so pound on this and let us know what needs to be > fixed" ... there shouldn't be any 'lead up' to beta, the lead up is the > development period itself ... *shrug* Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly