Re: [HACKERS] Plan for feature freeze?

[Andrew Dunstan]

Bruce Momjian wrote:
Neil Conway wrote:
 

On 30-Apr-04, at 8:53 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
   

For me even September 1st does not seem too late. Major version up
bring users pains including backup/restore application
imcompatibilty... IMO to justify those pains we need to give users
major enhancements. Honestly I don't understand why we should rush the
major version up.
     

Yeah, I completely agree. I think a feature freeze date of August or 
September is definitely worth considering.
   

Tatsuo brought up the an excellent point (that I have been saying for a
long time), that the number of must-fix bugs from previous releases is
shrinking, and the complexity of new features is increasing.
This dictates the that length of our release process should lengthen
over time.
 


Last year feature freeze was declared in July, IIRC. That means that the 
release cycle is approaching a year. Even with major features I don't 
think that's too short. And there's every reason to think we will need 
some very intensive testing during the Beta period (Win32 and PITR for 
starters surely need some hard testing), so we could end up releasing 
around November, unless we're lucky.

In fact, the longer you make the release cycle the more people will get 
upset if they miss one.

I still think middle of June is about right for feature freeze (even 
though it's not my decision).

cheers
andrew
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