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On 04/07/2012 11:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> On 04/07/2012 06:33 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>>> I hope that that policy will not be applied without some degree of
>>> discrimination.
>> If we are to have time based releases, then I assume it won't, it will
>> be pretty much a hard and fast rule.
>> I admit I haven't been a fan in the past, but I can see advantages, not
>> least being predictability of release times. It would be nice to be able
>> to say "In June" when asked when the next release will be, as I often am.
> Just to be clear ... I don't believe that we can have hard-and-fast
> *release* dates.  I am suggesting that it might be a good idea to have
> a hard deadline for committing new features.  But beta test phase will
> take however long it takes.  I don't think shaking out bugs is a
> predictable process.
>
> 			

I agree, but I think the release date will be much closer to being 
predictable if we chop off the last commitfest more rigorously. But time 
will tell.

cheers

andrew