Re: 9.5 feature count

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.5 feature count
Date: 2015-08-27 22:20:20
Message-ID: 20150827222020.GA14869@momjian.us
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:13:19AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Maybe there's a reasonable way to measure releases (my 8.0 is bigger
> > than your 9.1!), but I don't think this is it.
>
>
> I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think that anyone actually
> thinks of it that way. Most people tend to think of a release in terms
> of the big, exciting features, or the smaller features that happened
> to scratch their particular itch.

I agree. I think the count tells us how focused we are in working on a
few big things or many small things, e.g. when we don't have many big
features in a major release, the count tends to be high as we clean up
previously-released big features.

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