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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Release cycle length
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:58:20 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hello,

   Personally I am for long release cycles, at least for major releases. 
In fact
as of 7.4 I think there should possibly be a slow down in releases with more
incremental releases (minor releases) throughout the year.

   People are running their companies and lives off of PostgreSQL, they 
should
be able to rely on a specific feature set, and support from the community
for longer.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake


Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Neil Conway writes:
>
>  
>
>>Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> 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?
>>    
>>
>
>First, if you develop something today, the first time users would
>realistically get a hand at it would be January 2005.  Do you want that?
>Don't you want people to use your code?  We fix problems, but people must
>wait a year for the fix?
>
>Second, the longer a release cycle, the more problems amass.  People just
>forget what they were doing in the beginning, no one is around to fix the
>problems introduced earlier, no one remembers anything when it comes time
>to write release notes.  The longer you develop, the more parallel efforts
>are underway, and it becomes impossible to synchronize them to a release
>date.  People are not encouraged to provide small, well-thought-out,
>modular improvements.  Instead, they break everything open and worry about
>it later.  At the end, it's always a rush to close these holes.
>
>Altogether, it's a loss for both developers and users.
>
>  
>

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