Re: do we need to postpone beta4?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Well, that's pretty much saying we won't release before September.
>> Which is kind of a bummer, but I guess that's what happens when we get
>> into vacation season.
>
> Yeah, if we are lucky we can do RC1 in mid-August and still release
> final in August, but that assumes everything is done by then, and that
> we only need 1-2 RCs.  Early September looks more likely.  The good
> thing is that we are deciding now and are continually seeing if we can
> tighten the schedule.  (If we stop trying to tighten the schedule, we
> get a lose schedule, which no one likes.)

I am assuming that if we release beta4 with known bugs, beta5 in
mid-August is inevitable.  And we're going to need at least a couple
of weeks after beta5 before RC1, even assuming no new issues come up.
ISTM that if everything goes well we can expect to release in
*mid*-September.

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