Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera Munoz <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-19 04:31:14
Message-ID: 200405190431.i4J4VEw16417@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:
>
> > I have some confidence in that I will be able to deliver it maybe the last
> > week of May. I can only hope, however, that it will not be rejected because
> > it's presented too close to feature freeze.
>
> There is no such thing as "too close to feature freeze", nor has there
> ever been in the past ... other then missing it altogether. Unless there
> are some serious flaws in the implementation, submitting it on May 31st
> would get it in ...it isn't expecting to be rock solid, bug free, that is
> what the beta period is to work out ...
>
> What is expected, though, is that you won't disappear after its committed,
> so that you can fix any bugs reported in a timely manner ...

Not completely true. If a patch needs major rework or the implemention
isn't acceptable, it might be rejected and have to wait --- it has
happened before, and PITR might not make it because the April 1 patch
wasn't an acceptable implementation.

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