Re: Release cycle length
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-18T01:46:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> The time from release 7.3 to release 7.4 was 355 days, an all-time high. > We really need to shorten that. We already have a number of significant > improvements in 7.5 now, and several good ones coming up in the next few > weeks. We cannot let people wait 1 year for that. I suggest that we aim > for a 6 month cycle, consisting of approximately 4 months of development > and 2 months of cleanup. So the start of the next beta could be the 1st > of March. What do you think? So long as pg_dump object ordering is an early fix to make upgrades rather more painless, I'm all for it :) Does anyone have a comparison of how many lines of code were added in this release compared to previous? Chris