Tom Lane wrote:
>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>
>>I've raised this before, but would like to suggest again that there might be
>>virtue in branching earlier in the dev cycle - maybe around the time of the
>>first beta.
>>
>>
>
>Given the amount of patching that's gone on, branching 8.1 earlier would
>have meant a great deal more work for the committers, in the form of
>double-patching stuff. And I don't know about the other committers, but
>I've certainly had no spare bandwidth for reviewing or applying 8.1-cycle
>patches anyway. So I think we made the right move to delay the branch.
>
>Core hasn't really talked about the point yet, but I suspect we'll make
>the branch after 8.0RC1 appears (which hopefully will be Real Soon).
>
>
>
>
I do understand. Really. It just would be nice not to have development
work queued for months every release cycle. But limited resources as
always ...
cheers
andrew