Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It would be better not to branch until we're certain we won't need to
>> re-wrap the beta. �I'm wondering why you see a need for any daylight at
>> all between the branch date and the start of the CF.
> Well, I guess it isn't technically necessary, but I think it might
> make things less hectic. Last year we had two weeks, which was more
> than we needed, but I think a little slack time will make things go
> more smoothly.
I don't want to do it on the same day or anything like that, but I think
a couple days slack is plenty.
> BTW, if we're going to do a second pgindent run for this release, we
> probably want to do that before the branch point. Not sure if it
> should be done before or after beta3.
Yes, we must do that before branching. My preference would be to do it
before the beta --- I still feel there's a nonzero chance of pgindent
breaking things, so testing should happen on post-pgindent code.
regards, tom lane