Re: a few thoughts on the schedule

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:52:40AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Let me put a finer point on this --- whatever gets pushed to 9.6
> > unreasonably will be a feature we don't have in 9.5 and will discourage
> > future development.  I know we can't do magic, but now is the time to
> > try.
> 
> The other side of that coin is that the stuff that ends up getting pushed
> will, in many cases, be stuff that nobody cared a whole lot about.
> 
> One thing that continues to bother me about the commitfest process is that
> it's created a default expectation that things get committed eventually.
> But many new ideas are just plain bad, and others are things that nobody
> but the author cares about.  We need to remember that every new feature
> we add creates an ongoing maintenance burden, and might foreclose better
> ideas later.  I'd like to see a higher threshold for accepting feature
> patches than we seem to have applied of late.

Agreed.  If the idea is good someone else will pick it up.

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