On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> When do you think we will be ready for 9.2
>>> beta?
>
>> Well, we've got a bunch of open issues, but most of them don't look
>> *too* serious. If everyone dropped what they're doing and worked on
>> them, I think we could be done in 2 weeks, but realistically I think
>> it's likely to take 1-2 months.
>
> Well, I would sure like to see a beta out sooner than that. I don't
> think we necessarily have to resolve every known open issue before
> we put out beta1. I believe we do need to resolve anything that would
> force initdb (such as Peter's bytea_agg change), and of course we need
> to write release notes so that beta testers know what to test.
Fair enough.
> At the same time, I'd like to light a fire under people to deal with
> the open issues. I agree that it will take some time for all of
> them to get dealt with, but it doesn't help if the responsible hackers
> are procrastinating.
The joys of an all-volunteer project. :-)
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