Re: Release cycle length

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-18T13:18:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 20:08:41 -0500,
  Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > The time from release 7.3 to release 7.4 was 355 days, an all-time
> > high.  We really need to shorten that.
> 
> Why is that?

End users will find it useful.

I started using 7.4 from CVS early on because check constraints for domains
were available.

With a long release cycle you have to wait a long time to get any of
the features in a release when some of them may have been developed
early in the release cycle.