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Re: 8.4 release planning

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-26T20:12:43Z
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:

> HS is working very well (Simon's ongoing work aside).  I am pretty
> confident based on my personal testing that it would represent the
> project well if committed today.

I think a lot of people weren't aware there was anybody testing this patch
other than Simon and Heikki -- I wasn't until just today. I wonder how many
more people are trying it out?

This is one of the changes for the better from the past. Though I still think
a lot more would try it out once it's committed.

Here's a thought experiment. If it was committable *today* would we be willing
to go with it and plan to release with it? Assume that it would *still* mean a
longer beta process, so it would still mean releasing in, say April instead of
February or March.

While personally I want us to switch to a mode where we commit large patches
early in the development cycle I don't believe we would refuse to commit it
today if it was ready. And I can't imagine two weeks would make the
difference either.

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