Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, 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 14:19:41
Message-ID: 20040519111858.N5739@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 19 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 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.

Which is why I stateed "unless there are some serious flaws in ... " :)

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