Tom Lane wrote: > "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.
Let's see how much 8.0 cleanup we need. At this point I haven't seen any major things needing cleanup. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
