Re: Re: Release in 2 weeks ...

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>> I'm interested to know what exactly takes two weeks with the docs and what
>> could be done to speed it up.

> The "official" version of the story is that it takes ~10-20 hours for me
> to work through the docs to format them for hardcopy with ApplixWare,
> primarily because something in the jade RTF tickles a bug in the page
> formatting with Applix.

I'm sure anything that could be done to eliminate this formatting
make-work would be just fine with Thomas ;-).  However, it probably
wouldn't really change the release scheduling much, since as he points
out it's partially an excuse for clamping down:

> The reality is that it is a two week quiet time for us to get the last
> bugs out and to get the last platform-specific reports.

In short, now is our "okay people, let's get *serious*" phase.
No features, no trivial stuff, just get the critical bugs out.

> Scrappy has proposed that we start that period now. Were the concerns
> about WAL etc enough to hold off on that, or are we counting down from
> now?

I'm pretty concerned about WAL, but have no good reason not to start
the release countdown.
        regards, tom lane