From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Releasing in September |
Date: | 2016-01-20 16:56:44 |
Message-ID: | 20160120165644.GE28380@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:53:32AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I do not think commitfest length is the problem (though surely it's not
> > working as intended). What happened with 9.5 is we forked the 9.6
> > development branch on June 30th, with the expectation of releasing in
> > September, and then couldn't release in September because nobody had done
> > any significant amount of stabilization work. Instead we had the 2015-07
> > commitfest. And the 2015-09 commitfest. And the 2015-11 commitfest.
>
> But I'm not very sure that we're talking about the same set of people
> here. If we're going to go to a system where nobody's allowed to
> commit anything for the next release until the current release is
> finalized, then we'd better have some procedure for making sure that
> happens relatively quickly. And the procedure can't be that the
> people who are hot to get started on the next release have to bat
> cleanup for the people who don't have time to fix the bugs they
> introduced previously. Because *that* would be manifestly unfair.
Unfair or not, that is probably the effect. I can also see people
publishing git trees to avoid this roadblock.
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