Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> Updatable views is reverted. I agree that we should reject the rest and
>> prepare a release.
>
> That will send a fine message to those companies that have sponsored
> development work - that we will arbitrarily reject large patches that
> have been worked on following the procedures that we require.

To some extent that seems more an issue of linguistics and tone.

If Peter had written "we should defer the rest and try to help resolve
specific issues identified in the reviews during commitfest 2009-First",
sponsors might be happy rather than upset.

I think one can make a strong argument that the features should
be moved to the next commit-fest, just so the other patches in that
commit fest ( http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2009-First )
don't bit-rot too badly.

Whether the community wants to release an 8.4 between
commitfest 2008-11 and 2009-First seems to me a largely
orthogonal question that would be based more on what demand
there is for an 8.4 release and how distracting it would be
to do a release between commitfests.