Re: [CORE] RC1 blocker issues

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Just so you all know: I gave a green flag for two magazines (one in
> Middle East, one in Dutch) to carry articles about 8.2 for their
> January issues, which will come out in December.   So there's a
> distinct possibility that those magazines will come out and 8.2 still
> won't be available.  I hadn't anticipated us slipping the schedule by
> more than a month.  Not that this should be our deciding criteria,
> but just so people know that I'm not just pushing the date for no
> reason.

We have this issue every year and it's never ended up being a problem.  
It's the author's or publisher's fault if they can't write their 
articles ambiguous enough.

> Also note that if we release between December 18th and January 3rd,
> we can pretty much expect no coverage from the press.

We also have this issue every year and I still don't believe it.  
Curiously, there is always excellent press coverage of everything else 
between December 18th and January 3rd.

> Overall, I submit that our release process is broken, and that we're
> having trouble getting this release out because nobody is paying
> attention to it (of which I too have been guilty off-and-on).  I
> suggest that we need something different for 8.3, or we can forget
> about even trying to do a short release schedule.

We also have this issue every year, but the time from beta to release 
has always been about three months.  With the buildfarm helping out, 
we're a couple of weeks early this time.  Rejoice.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/