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 58E4FD1BB48 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:20:13 +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 31279-08 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:19:44 -0400 (AST) Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.249.74]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A3C5D1C4DD for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:19:41 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 31207 invoked by uid 500); 18 Nov 2003 13:18:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:18:27 -0600 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Neil Conway Cc: Peter Eisentraut , PostgreSQL Development Subject: Re: Release cycle length Message-ID: <20031118131827.GD30809@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Neil Conway , Peter Eisentraut , PostgreSQL Development References: <87isliiiue.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87isliiiue.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/967 X-Sequence-Number: 47255 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 20:08:41 -0500, Neil Conway wrote: > Peter Eisentraut 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.