Re: [HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:55:07AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > > I think this has very little to do with commitfest schedules, and much > > more with the "early" forking of the new version branch. For both 9.4 > > and 9.5 we essentially spen

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2016-01-20 10:40:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> We have gotten off of that cycle in the last two major releases, and >> this isn't going to improve as long as we have commitfests starting >> after January. > > I think this has very lit

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 01/20/2016 07:40 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Our current 9.5/9.6 timing looks more like the 8.X series of release dates. Everyone might be fine with that, but we had better be prepared for November-February major release dates going forward. Bruce, Thank you for bringing this up it is a good

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:48:16PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2016-01-20 10:40:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > We have gotten off of that cycle in the last two major releases, and > > this isn't going to improve as long as we have commitfests starting > > after January. > > I think this h

Re: [HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Andres Freund
On 2016-01-20 10:40:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > We have gotten off of that cycle in the last two major releases, and > this isn't going to improve as long as we have commitfests starting > after January. I think this has very little to do with commitfest schedules, and much more with the "ear

[HACKERS] Releasing in September

2016-01-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Many people where happy with our consistent releasing major releases in September, e.g. 9.0 to 9.3: 9.5 2016-01-07 9.4 2014-12-18 9.3 2013-09-09 <-- 9.2 2012-09-10 <-- 9.1 2011-09-12 <-- 9.0 2010-09-20 <-- 8.4 2009-07-01

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