Re: Release planning (was: Re: Status report)

Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 7/10/2004 11:02 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > If you get full control of PostgreSQL, you can dictate what will happen.
> > Until then, I will follow the community consensus, which may or may not
> > match your opinion.
> 
> Marc isn't the only one who didn't like waiting for more features going 
> into 7.5 two months ago. I agree that it is too late now to push things 
> just out. But the mistake made wasn't ours.
> 
> What this repeated discussion about release plans and schedules (and we 
> have it every release) indicates to me is that we might miss something. 
> As you pointed out elsewhere, a 9-12 month development cycle just isn't 
> enough to get those big features done. But I think that stretching the 
> release cycle to two years and holding back all the smaller features as 
> well isn't a good idea either.
> 
> I think in the future we have to force all large features, those that 
> probably need more than 6 months of development time, to be properly 
> #ifdef'd. Then it wouldn't be that big of a deal to release more often.

Alvaro started out with ifdef's but it got too confusing and we all
agreed to just go with a normal patch.  He just hits too much code. 
PITR could be done that way though.

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