9.5 release scheduling (was Re: logical column ordering)

Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/10/2014 05:14 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>>> But the scheduling of commits with regard to the 9.5 schedule actually
>>> opens a relevant question: When are we planning to release 9.5? Because
>>> If we try ~ one year from now it's a whole different ballgame than if we
>>> try to go back to september. And I think there's pretty good arguments
>>> for both.

>> This should really be on its own thread for discussion... I'm leaning,
>> at the moment at least, towards the September release schedule. I agree
>> that having a later release would allow us to get more into it, but
>> there's a lot to be said for the consistency we've kept up over the past
>> few years with a September (our last non-September release was 8.4).

> Can we please NOT discuss this in the thread about someone's patch? Thanks.

Quite. So, here's a new thread.

MHO is that, although 9.4 has slipped more than any of us would like,
9.5 development launched right on time in August. So I don't see a
good reason to postpone 9.5 release just because 9.4 has slipped.
I think we should stick to the schedule agreed to in Ottawa last spring.

Comments?

regards, tom lane