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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Release cycle length
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:58:26 -0400 (AST)
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Just did a quick search on archives, and the original plan was for a
release in mid-2003, which means the beta would have been *at least* a
month before that, so beta starting around May:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-11/msg00975.php

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> >
> > > That is the usual goal *nod*  Same goal we try for each release, and never
> > > quite seem to get there ... we'll try 'yet again' with 7.5 though, as we
> > > always do :)
> >
> > I don't see how we could have tried for a 4-month development period and
> > ended up with an 8-month period.  Something went *really* wrong there.
> > Part of that may have been that few people were actually aware of that
> > schedule.
>
> Everyone on  -hackers should have been aware of it, as its always
> discussed at the end of the previous release cycle ... and I don't think
> we've hit a release cycle yet that has actually stayed in the 4 month
> period :(  Someone is always 'just sitting on something that is almost
> done' at the end that pushes it further then originally planned ...
>
>
>

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