On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:51:31PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > > All, > > > > > Yeah, conference-based releases is just a proxy for time-based > > > releases. It's nice to have something to be happy about at the > > > conference too. And it's a convenient time to start talking > > > about the next release when you're all face-to-face. > > > > On the one hand: > > > > I'd say that we go for the 3-CF release. I think we need to prove > > that we can do a time-based release once before a lot of people on > > this list will believe in it. > > > > If we do 4 CFs, we're in danger of still being in beta in late May > > ... and once conference and vacation season start, things get a > > lot slower. Mind you, it's possible that we can shorten the final > > CF and beta this time, but I wouldn't want to count on it. > > > > If we *can* shorten them, then 8.6 can have 4CFs. But we won't > > know until after we've done it. > > > > On the other hand: > > > > I think if we do another release without Standby/replication, > > we'll start to lose a lot of users. People are waiting on that, > > and a lot of folks were expecting it in 8.4. > > That is a slightly alarmist. Who are we going to lose these users > to?
Sadly, to one of the MySQL forks. This is one of those cases (cf. the current thread on -advocacy) where pointy-hair-friendliness can really help or hurt us. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
