Re: commit fests

On fre, 2010-01-22 at 18:05 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> and start talking about
> how we can create an environment where patch authors can get their
> work committed reasonably quickly (assuming it's good, of course) and
> released within some reasonable time frame after that (like, say,
> within a year from commit) - because I think those things are
> important to the health of the project, and even though FWIH things
> are much better than in pre-CommitFest days, I still think there's
> quite a bit of room for improvement.
>
> Any ideas?

The lower bound on the release cycle is about 12 months right now
because we intend to support old versions for 5 years, and 5 or 6
branches at once is about the most anyone can handle. That formula is
tough to change.