"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: >>> I thought we were trying to get away from a midsummer feature freeze, due to >>> the general lack of personnel in that season?
> I concur with Josh on this ... that kinda wastes the 'two months of > summer' when ppl are really sporatically around, so no really testing will > get done ... I'd rather see a Sept 1st feature freeze, once most ppl are > back from holidays and are a bit more steady ... it means those working on > the big features have a few extra months to hammer out the kinks, and > those testing are a bit more 'consistent/focused' then they are when they > are planning, or on, holidays ;) The thing is, if we target feature freeze for September then I think there is 0 chance of the 8.1 cycle being less than a year -- even with a fairly short feature freeze and beta cycle you're getting into December unless there are no slips at all. And we tried and failed to release in December this last time; it's got the same people-aren't-paying-attention problem as the summer. If this were an ordinary devel cycle then I'd be fine with it running a year, but I think we really do need to plan for a shorter than normal cycle so we can clean up 8.0 kinks in a reasonably timely fashion. Also, I'm unconvinced that we can't do post-feature-freeze cleanup during the summer. If we have say a beta2 by the time September comes, then people returning from vacation will have something to beat on, and I think it will go well. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]