Re: Alpha 1 for 9.2

On tis, 2011-09-06 at 13:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> 2011/9/6 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
> > Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> >> Is there a plan to wrap up 9.2 Alpha 1 before the next commitfest?
> >
> > We talked about it on core and no one seems interested in doing the
> > packaging.  :-(
> 
> Well I don't particularly mind pushing a tag and bundling it, but I
> guess the question is whether we actually want to do alpha releases at
> all.  I assume that core's reluctance to do this stems from being
> dubious about its value, which seems like something that we should
> discuss more broadly.

One point, which was already raised last year around this time, was that
it does seem weird to have alphas for release N+1 while beta for release
N is still going on.  This year the start of N+1 was even earlier than
last year.