Re: wrapping up this CommitFest (was Re: knngist - 0.8)

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:26 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Since we appear to be still holding the commitfest open for Sync Rep,
> >>> I guess this ought to get reviewed.
> >>
> >> Or else we should close the CommitFest and cut alpha4.  Anyone have an
> >> opinion on which way to go?
> >
> > I think we can give Sync Rep until the 15th, given the pace of work on
> > it.  It is a major feature, and a complicated one.
> 
> Sure, but there are other features, major and minor, that we have
> postponed to 9.2.  In the normal course of events, sync rep would have
> been marked Returned with Feedback a month ago.  I like the feature,
> but I have to say I'm not very pleased that we seem to have fallen
> into a pattern of believing that some major features are somehow
> exempted from the scheduling deadline and others are not. 

Neither am I, I mean, we were actively fixing and bringing Fk-Locks up
to date and we got pushed but sync rep gets in? We may have had fk-locks
baked by now. I want syncrep as much as the next person, but this isn't
really fair to any of the other submitters.

JD

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