Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info> writes:
>> I do agree that trying to force coordination with a specific conference
>> in Ottawa seems like a very peculiar sort of forced scheduling.
>
> Well, PGCon is just a convenient concrete target.  The real point here
> is that we're trying to get the release cycle to end with a release in
> the spring.

Yeah, conference-based releases is just a proxy for time-based
releases. It's nice to have something to be happy about at the
conference too. And it's a convenient time to start talking about the
next release when you're all face-to-face.

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