Re: a few thoughts on the schedule

On 2015-05-18 23:30:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> >> On 2015-05-19 11:34:49 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >>> There are many remaining open items.
>
> >> At least on https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.5_Open_Items
> >> there not really that many?
>
> > On top of those items, many patches and features (I mean a lot!) have
> > been committed just before the feature freeze deadline. I would think
> > that those things should be looked at a second time by extra eyes.

Completely agreed that there's a lot of need for review and testing. I
just wondered because of the reference to the open item list whether you
were potentially thinking about something else.

> I think if we spend the next month reviewing what's already in, we could
> ship a credible beta before PGCon. And then maybe we could start 9.6
> development on 1 July, only a couple weeks late.

1st of July doesn't seem to leave much room to me. Even if we ship Beta1
before pgcon, the work doesn't stop there. At least I hope so, because
if it does it will mean that nobody is testing beta 1.

> But if we start focusing
> on 9.6 development right now, which is what some current threads seem to
> be after, 9.5 is going to be a disaster.

FWIW, I personally don't intend to start actual significant new
development till early/mid June. I think I, and probably some others,
will have to have a couple design discussions until then though. For one
it'll be hard to discuss things effectively at pgcon without that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund