Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release

Is there a writeup of the version numbering and CVS branch scheme in any of the
FAQs?

If not, there should be.

Steve


Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > > It is agreed that Feb 1st is the beta date...it will not include WAL, but
> > > will be numbered v7.0, with v7.1 going BETA as soon as Vadim feels
> > > prepared with the WAL code...
> >
> > OK, it's decided.  Let's quit arguing.
> >
> > > On Feb 1st, the CVS repository will be branched, like we did on the last
> > > release, so that we can beta/debug 7.0 *without* interfering with
> > > development on 7.1.  This has proven to work quite well with v6.5.x,
> >
> > Actually, I thought what worked well was to postpone the branch as long
> > as possible.  Double-patching is no fun...
>
> Ditto.  Look at the 6_5 branch and you will see it was done far into the
> 6.5 release, not at the 6.5.0 release.  I don't want to continue
> mentioning this for every release.
>
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