Re: Release planning (was: Re: Status report)

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Note that I'm all for a long (2 year? or even 'indefinite') development 
> cycle for a major release if we continue on with what has been happening 
> more often lately, where stuff is back patched to the last stable release 
> ... there is alot of stuff that doesn't require a reload of the database 
> (or initdb) that could very easily be backpatched ...
> 
> As Jan points out, its the 'small features that are done' that we've been 
> griping about having to wait for, not the big ones which we know aren't 
> done ...
> 
> The nice thing about doing something lke that is those small features 
> would get a degree of testing happening in a live environment ...

Of course that last sentence is the downside too --- people don't want
to have to retest their setups after a minor release upgrade.

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