Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> marcelo zen escribió:
>> I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and not when
>> the calendar year mandates it.
>> It seems like a terrible idea.
> 
> But we do actually release on calendar year.  While it seems not
> unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
> to one month, two months of delay.  Four months?  I don't think anybody
> even imagines such a long delay.  It would be seen as utter,
> unacceptable failure of our release team.

It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07.

> Others have commented in this thread that the idea seems ridiculous, and
> I concur.  But the reason is not what you say.  The reason, I think, is
> that for years we spent months each time debating what to name the next
> release; and only recently, in version 10, we decided to change our
> numbering scheme so that these pointless discussions are gone for good.
> To think that just three years after that we're going to waste months
> again discussing the same topic ...?  Surely not.

Agreed, and personally I do not see enough benefit from moving to 20.X 
or 2020.X for it to be worth re-opening this discussion. The bikeshed is 
already painted.

Andreas