Re: logical column ordering

* 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).

I'd certainly vote against planning for a mid-December release as, at
least in my experience, it's a bad idea to try and do December (or
January 1..) major releases. October might work, but that's not much of
a change from September. Late January or February would probably work
but that's quite a shift from September and don't think it'd be
particularly better. Worse, I'm nervous we might get into a habit of
longer and longer releases. Having yearly releases, imv at least, is
really good for the project and those who depend on it. New features
are available pretty quickly to end-users and people can plan around our
schedule pretty easily (eg- plan to do DB upgrades in January/February).

Thanks,

Stephen