Re: 9.6 -> 10.0

By the way, don't get me wrong. If we stick to 9.6 for the current release I'm
perfectly happy with that, and would even prefer it for aesthetics reasons, as
AFAIK we never got to a .6 before. The more general principle of just going
10,11,12 etc can start the next time, mainly to avoid ever having the kind of
needless bike-shedding in this discussion. -- Darren Duncan

On 2016-05-09 7:36 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2016-05-09 6:49 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>wrote:
>> On 2016-05-09 6:30 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> Are we inclined to change this once we release Beta 1?
>>
>> Does the person in charge of tagging the repo, i.e. Tom Lane, watch
>> -advocacy?
>>
>> I would expect the version number to be mutable through the beta phase, and
>> only be locked down once the first release candidate is out. -- Darren Duncan
>>
>> ​I would expect it to be locked down as soon as we start making public
>> announcements about it - which happens when beta1 goes out. In this case I'd
>> accept choosing 10.0 but upon reverting half the features as being not ready
>> changing back to 9.6; I don't really buy increasing it post-beta1 when no
>> material changes have occurred - and I think we'd look somewhat silly trying.
>>
>> That said I seem to recall that the decision to number 9.0 came relatively late
>> in the release cycle. I'm not inclined to go research when I suspect quite a
>> few people on this list can recall the facts from memory.
>
> This has nothing to do with features, it is just a label. The features should
> be exactly the same whether this is called 9.6 or 10.0. There is no
> justification to make any changes to features just because the label was changed
> from 9.6 to 10.0 during the beta stream. Basically explain as there never was a
> formal 9.6 series, it was always just 10.0, and 9.6 was an internal name during
> development. The numbers only really "count" for production-ready versions, not
> in-development ones like betas. -- Darren Duncan