Re: Ready to branch 7.2/7.3 ?

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>> We can branch before the minor, right?  Backpatching into the first
>> minor isn't a bigger deal than backpatching into later minors, and we
>> aren't patching much of anything now anyway.

> *rofl*  And you've been arguing *against* this for how many releases now,
> and I've tried to get you guys to go along with this for how many
> releases? :)

Hey guys: there is no black or white on this.  It's a tradeoff ---
delaying next-version development versus effort wasted to do double
patching.

In this particular cycle, I'm for an early branch because we don't seem
to have a lot of bugs coming in, and we've got a lot of development work
that people are eager to get started on (or even to apply already-done
patches, in some cases).  Both of these facts have doubtless got a lot
to do with the horrendously long release cycle for 7.2 --- which is
something I am *not* happy about.

I think the fact that we want to branch so soon after release is an
indication that we delayed the release too long.  7.2 should have been
out months ago.
        regards, tom lane