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Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2016-04-29T15:44:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:07:04PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Our roadmap http://www.postgresql.org/developer/roadmap/ is the problem. We
> don't have clear roadmap and that's why we cannot plan future feature full
> release. There are several postgres-centric companies, which have most of
> developers, who do all major contributions. All these companies has their
> roadmaps, but not the community.

I would be concerned if company roadmaps overtly affected the community
roadmap.  In general, I find company roadmaps to be very short-sighted
and quickly changed based on the demands of specific users/customers ---
something we don't want to imitate.

We do want company roadmaps to affect the community roadmap, but in a
healthy, long-term way, and I think, in general, that is happening.

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