Re: PG 9.0 release timetable

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases 
> > according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether 
> > packaging manpower is actually available.
> 
> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing? 
> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it 
> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ...

Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right?  I don't
think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot,
source-code wise.

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