Re: Sync Rep for 2011CF1

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> ... Well, the current CommitFest ends in one week, ...
>>>
>>> Really?  I thought the idea for the last CF of a development cycle was
>>> that it kept going till we'd dealt with everything.  Arbitrarily
>>> rejecting stuff we haven't dealt with doesn't seem fair.
>>
>> Uh, we did that with 8.4 and it was a disaster.  The CommitFest lasted
>> *five months*. We've been doing schedule-based CommitFests ever since
>> and it's worked much better.
>
> Rejecting stuff because we haven't gotten round to dealing with it in
> such a short period of time is a damn good way to limit the number of
> contributions we get. I don't believe we've agreed at any point that
> the last commitfest should be the same time length as the others

News to me.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.1_Development_Plan

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