Re: Schedule and Release Management Team for PG10

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, formally speaking, the RMT declares the onset of feature freeze.
> I expressed an opinion that they'd probably do so at the end of March,
> but it's their call as to exactly when to do so, and whether to grant
> any limited extensions/exceptions.
> 
> My own thought is that there's room for at least a few days' slop in
> the end date of the final commitfest, depending on what patches remain
> open and what the prospects are for getting them done.  (In the past
> we've sometimes let the final fest stretch on indefinitely, which is
> clearly the Wrong Thing; but that doesn't mean that the Right Thing is
> to say that it ends at 2017-04-01 00:00 UTC no matter what.)  The RMT
> should look at things in another day or two and make a judgment call
> about that.

I agree we need to extend, and not wait until any longer to do it.  We
have people at the NYC conference and I don't want their memory of the
conference being that they were stressed trying to work on closing the
commit fest --- that could lead to bad memories and them declining
future conference attendance.  If that delays our final release for a
week, it is worth it.

I propose we go for a week delay in closing the commit fest, and we
decide right now.  Ideally I like to to see delay in one-week increments
_and_ announce that a week before each deadline.

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