Re: Releasing in September

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Releasing in September
Date: 2016-01-20 17:17:42
Message-ID: 20160120171742.GC26711@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2016-01-20 09:15:01 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 01/20/2016 09:03 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >If people don't fix the issues in time, there needs to be
> >direct pushback, leading to much less stuff getting in next time round.
> >
>
> We have been slowly moving to a more dictator based release anyway. It used
> to be that we released "when it's done", then we moved to commitfest, and
> now we are having yet another discussion on the same topic of how to manage
> all of this.
>
> It seems clear that we need to be able to say:
>
> * "Your feature is awesome. Sorry, you are out of time"

That's not really related to the discussion here tho? The debated
problem is things that have already been committed that have have bugs,
preventing beta/rc releases from being made. In some cases in the last
releases such bugs were in features integrated very early in the cycle.

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