X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0F1D1D530; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:39:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30673-09; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:39:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from filer (12-234-86-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.86.219]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F7AD1D8B4; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:26:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by filer with local; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:26:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:26:20 -0800 From: Kevin Brown To: "Matthew T. O'Connor" Cc: Peter Eisentraut , "Marc G. Fournier" , Christopher Kings-Lynne , PostgreSQL Development Subject: Re: Release cycle length Message-ID: <20031118032620.GK6073@filer> Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Brown , "Matthew T. O'Connor" , Peter Eisentraut , "Marc G. Fournier" , Christopher Kings-Lynne , PostgreSQL Development References: <3FB988B8.1050904@zeut.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB988B8.1050904@zeut.net> Organization: Frobozzco International User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/928 X-Sequence-Number: 47216 Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > I agree with Peter's other comment, that the longer the development > cycle, the longer the beta / bug shakeout period, perhaps a shorter dev > cycle would yield a shorter beta period, but perhaps it would also > result in a less solid release. Perhaps. Perhaps not. The fewer the changes, the less complexity you have to manage. But it would certainly result in a smaller set of feature changes per release. Some people might regard that as a good thing. The advantage to doing more frequent releases is that new features end up with more real-world testing within a given block of time, on average, because a lot more people pick up the releases than the CVS snapshots or even release candidates.. -- Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com