Re: 9.5 release scheduling (was Re: logical column ordering)

On 12/10/2014 09:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?

If anything, it seems like a great reason to try to get 9.5 out BEFORE
we open the tree for 9.6/10.0/Cloud++. While there were technical
issues, 9.4 dragged a considerable amount because most people were
ignoring it in favor of 9.5 development.

So far, I haven't seen any features for 9.5 which would delay a more
timely release the way we did for 9.4. Anybody know of a bombshell
someone's going to drop on us for CF5?

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