Release planning (was: Re: Status report)

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.


Jan


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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > My point is that it isn't the patch submitters we are waiting on
>> > anymore.  It is the backlog of patches that need review/adjustment.
>> 
>> "Of course, many of the patches I kept need some adjustment to get applied 
>> ..." ... to me, that indicates that even after review, they will have to 
>> go back to the submitter to be adjusted, and sent back, and reviewed, and 
>> ...
>> 
>> Get in what you feel comfortable adding over the next week, the rest can 
>> wait until 7.6 ...
>> 
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>> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
>> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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