Re: PostgreSQL 17 Release Management Team & Feature Freeze

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-04-08T13:43:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> And maybe we need to think of a way to further mitigate this crush of
> last minute commits. e.g. In the last week, you can't have more
> feature commits, or more lines of insertions in your commits, than you
> did in the prior 3 weeks combined. I don't know. I think this mad rush
> of last-minute commits is bad for the project.

I was just about to pen an angry screed along the same lines.
The commit flux over the past couple days, and even the last
twelve hours, was flat-out ridiculous.  These patches weren't
ready a week ago, and I doubt they were ready now.

The RMT should feel free to exercise their right to require
revert "early and often", or we are going to be shipping a
very buggy release.

			regards, tom lane