Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Scheduale

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Just to keep everyone in the loop at what we are looking at right now.
>>>
>>> RC4          - Packaged tonight, Announced Friday AM
>>> Full Release - Packaged Monday Night, PR/Announce Tuesday AM
>>>
>>> If *anyone* is sitting on something, plesae let us know ASAP ... I'm
>>> planning on packaging up RC4 tonight around 1am GMT (around
>>> 9pm my time,
>>> around 5pm Josh's (Pacific) time, if I recall my time zone's correctly)
>>
>> As long as the APPDATA-files-on-win32 is finished off, I'm fine. Seems
>> Tom is on that right now, so I don't doubti t will be.
>>
>> Just a thought - considering it's just a weekend in between, isn't the
>> time between RC4 and release a little bit on the shortside? I mean, not
>> a lot of people will have time to test it "for real" in that time...
>> While there aren't any large changes, it never hurts to be on the safe
>> side?
>> (Remember - there is always a bit of a delay before packagers pick it
>> up. I know there is at least for the MSI package for windows, but I'm
>> sure there also is for RPM etc. So people running off those will have
>> even less time to test..)
>> I'm definitly not saying drag this out a long time, but perhaps two more
>> days or so?
>
> I agree Magnus has a point here.  We just did major changes for Win32
> configuration file locations and it seems it is a mistake to not have
> sufficient time for testing and to see if something else comes up.
>
> I think we should shoot for the end of next week.

I'm the last person to argue against delaying to get it right :)  But, if 
we are going to delay to end of week, why not just make it a Sun package, 
Mon release, so that Josh et al can get the best bang for the PR/release 
announcement?

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