Re: Ready for RC1

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ready for RC1
Date: 2004-12-03 01:10:17
Message-ID: 200412030110.iB31AHo01418@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > One more issue. Until we start RC, patches that are bug fixes will
> > continue to be applied. Do we want that? By going RC we are basically
> > saying we need to focus on docs and packaging and we perhaps can keep
> > fixes for 8.0.1.
>
> critical bug fixes should be applied through RC, so that full release is
> as solid as possible ... that's generally what forces our extra RCs ...

Right. My point is that minor fixes are getting in because we are still
in beta, while in RC those minor fixes are held for the next minor
release.

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