Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-30T04:45:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > > I guess my point is really "do you want to freeze on June 1 if *none* of
> > > > these features are done?"
> > >
> > > No, I agree that that would be foolish ... but there has also been alot
> > > done on the code over the past few months that even *one* of those
> > > features should be enough to put it over the top ...
> >
> > But we should have at least one done before setting a freeze date, and
> > the freeze date should be one month in the future.  Right now we have
> > none.
> 
> Now, that logic *doesn't* follow ... freeze date == that one feature makes
> more sense ... or freeze date == one month from May 1st *or* one feature,
> whichever is longer makes sense ...

But we don't want to have all our developers controlled by one feature
being completed.  It isn't fair.  They should get a good warning about
freeze starting.

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