From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Status report |
Date: | 2004-07-11 02:19:26 |
Message-ID: | 200407110219.i6B2JQq17560@candle.pha.pa.us |
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My point is that it isn't the patch submitters we are waiting on
anymore. It is the backlog of patches that need review/adjustment.
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I am still going through my mailbox, trying to address all the open
> > patches so we can move toward beta. Of course, many of the patches I
> > kept need some adjustment to get applied (e.g. configuration file
> > location) so it is slow going.
> >
> > However, we still have PITR unapplied, autovacuum unapplied, and nested
> > transactions don't have savepoint support, so we are still a while away
> > from beta. I think we should start thinking of beta as August 1 rather
> > than mid-July.
>
> And so we fall into the hole we dig for ourselves with each release, where
> the beta period takes almost as long as the development period itself ...
> originally, this was all supposed to be done for June 1st, but we pushed
> it back to July 1st since ppl only needed "another month" ... then, July
> 1st, we did the feature freeze, but because so much was left to be
> applied, we decided to leave bundling first beta until mid-July ...
>
> If six extra weeks hasn't been enough, I have little faith that adding
> 'yet another 2 weeks' is going to be enough either ... leave them for 7.6
> then ...
>
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