Re: Release cycle length

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 04:36, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > 0. As you say, make it known to the public. Have people test their
> > in-development applications using a beta.
>
> and how do you propose we do that? I think this is the hard part ...
> other then the first beta, I post a note out to -announce and -general
> that the beta's have been tag'd and bundled for download ... I know Sean
> does up a 'devel' port for FreeBSD, but I don't believe any of the RPM/deb
> maintainers do anything until the final release ...

I do in fact build debs of the beta and rc releases. These have gone
into the experimental archive in Debian and are announced on Debian
lists. I even posted an announcement to pgsql-general, on 10th October
for example.

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