Re: Assisting developers

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Assisting developers
Date: 2004-07-13 17:21:03
Message-ID: 200407131721.i6DHL3329281@candle.pha.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > The result is that we chronically have less manpower when just when we need
> > everybody. And some of us end up spending 11 hours a day in front of the
> > screen when we should be outside soaking up Vitamin D.
> >
> > Therefore, I propose that the next version either feature freeze in March or
> > in October, but NOT in May-August. Which we do -- March or October -- can be
> > based on an evaluation of the outstanding post-7.5 patches in January.
>
> True, but northern-hemisphere summer is only 6 weeks old, and we have
> had these issues for many months --- it isn't a new problem. Alvaro
> didn't get the feedback he needed in March either. :-(

Oh, and neither did Simon. :-(

In fact Simon coded a whole client-side approach to PITR before I
studied his ideas and realized it needs to be done as a server
subprocess.

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