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Re: PostgreSQL 17 Release Management Team & Feature Freeze

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-04-08T15:05:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> writes:
> IMO the fact that people struggle to work on patches, and make them better,
> etc. is an immense blessing for the Postgres community. Is the peak of
> commits really a big problem provided we have 6 months before actual
> release? I doubt March patches tend to be worse than the November ones.

Yes, it's a problem, and yes the average quality of last-minute
patches is visibly worse than that of patches committed in a less
hasty fashion.  We have been through this every year for the last
couple decades, seems like, and we keep re-learning that lesson
the hard way.  I'm just distressed at our utter failure to learn
from experience.

			regards, tom lane