Re: commit fests (was Re: primary key error message)

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm not sure whether you're stating a position that's been agreed to
>> by -core or some other group, or just expressing your own opinion, but
>> I think feature freeze should be the beginning of the last CommitFest,
>> not the end.
>
> I think traditionally we understood "feature freeze" to be the point at
> which we stopped *committing* new features, not the point at which it
> was too late to *submit* them.  So by that definition feature freeze
> starts at the end of the last CF.

OK, fair enough.

> I agree with Peter that things are a bit different in the CF process.
> Rather than a binary frozen-or-not state, we now have a gradual
> congealing (if you will), where the size of an acceptable new feature
> gets smaller as we get towards the end of the development cycle.

Yeah, and I have no problem with that.  I think I've already beaten
this horse to death, though, so I won't re-explain what I do think.

...Robert