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Re: 7.4?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Ericson Smith <eric@did-it.com>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, Patrick MacDonald <patrickm@redhat.com>
Date: 2003-03-06T20:44:34Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> So you were thinking of beta for May 1?

> Rather than picking an arbitrary date for the beta, wouldn't it make
> more sense to simply put out the beta when a particular set of features
> are finished (say, Win32 + PITR + ...)

We did that for 7.1, and again in 7.2; and it was a bad mistake both
times, because we found ourselves in a state where "it's almost done
except X" --- and no one except the person working on X could really
do any further development.

For 7.3 we agreed to set a firm feature-freeze cutoff date well in
advance.  That worked a *lot* better, and I'd like to stick with that
approach.

I don't actually much care whether the cutoff is May 1 or June 1 or
whatever.  But I want it set in advance, and stuck to, so that people
can plan their own efforts without wondering what will be happening.

			regards, tom lane