Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:59:51PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> > Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> >> I'd suggest we have multiple checkpoints during the cycle.
> >> Checkpoint is a "patch queue blitz" where we stop developing and
> >> reduce the queue to nothing. Perhaps a two-week period where
> >> everybody helps reduce the queue, not just Tom and Bruce. Every
> >> outstanding patch gets told what they need to do in order to get
> >> it committed. FF is then just the last in a series of
> >> checkpoints. Suggest we do a checkpoint every 2 months.
> >
> > I like this idea ...
>
> Don't we need to have a background writer process to gradually flush
> this data so that checkpoints aren't so massive? ;-)

I'm proposing a DSCM with easy branching and merging to implement this
background writer process :)

The one below is already available, so we don't have to do a "flag
day" with it.

http://repo.or.cz/w/PostgreSQL.git

There are git-cvsimport and git-cvsexport utilities which make
communication between the legacy SCM and the DSCM straight-forward.

Cheers,
David.
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