Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > >
> > > >Right now, the feature freeze is tentative for 1st of June, which has been
> > > >thrown around a few times already ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > If it has I've missed it - always seemed somewhat vaguer to me.
> >
> > Yes, it was vague. The question is now that we are a month away, do we
> > want to target June 1, mid-June, or July 1.
>
> Target June 1st ... when May 29th or so rolls around, we can then
> determine whether or not we need to extend it, and why. We've gone down
> this road too many times, where we've extended cause a patch was "right
> around the corner" that finally came in a month later ...
>
> The point of a deadline is that you don't make it floating ... if the
> deadline arrives, and someone can justify extending it a few days to a
> week, then so be it ...

No. We tried that in the past and we ended up extending it in pieces
several times. The effect was that we delayed feature freeze by a month
or two, and other features never got developed in that timeframe. I
remember SMP fixes for 7.3 as causing that problem. We didn't do that
for 7.4 and it was better.

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