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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:46:06 +0800
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Release cycle length
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> The time from release 7.3 to release 7.4 was 355 days, an all-time high.
> We really need to shorten that.  We already have a number of significant
> improvements in 7.5 now, and several good ones coming up in the next few
> weeks.  We cannot let people wait 1 year for that.  I suggest that we aim
> for a 6 month cycle, consisting of approximately 4 months of development
> and 2 months of cleanup.  So the start of the next beta could be the 1st
> of March.  What do you think?

So long as pg_dump object ordering is an early fix to make upgrades 
rather more painless, I'm all for it :)

Does anyone have a comparison of how many lines of code were added in 
this release compared to previous?

Chris