Releasing in September

Many people where happy with our consistent releasing major releases in
September, e.g. 9.0 to 9.3:
9.5   2016-01-079.4   2014-12-189.3   2013-09-09 <--9.2   2012-09-10 <--9.1   2011-09-12 <--9.0   2010-09-20 <--8.4
2009-07-018.3  2008-02-048.2   2006-12-058.1   2005-11-088.0   2005-01-19
 

We have gotten off of that cycle in the last two major releases, and
this isn't going to improve as long as we have commitfests starting
after January.  In the September-release years, we used to start
preparing for beta in mid-February or early March.  However, for 9.5 we
had our last commitfest _start_ in mid-February, and it didn't end until
mid-May.  For 9.6 we have a commitfest starting in March 1.  This will
never allow a September release.

Our current 9.5/9.6 timing looks more like the 8.X series of release
dates.  Everyone might be fine with that, but we had better be prepared
for November-February major release dates going forward.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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