Re: [CORE] back-branch multixact fixes & 9.5 alpha/beta: schedule

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> OK, now I understand. :-O We have known failures that are not patched,
> hence the desire for a release.
>
> I am a little concerned we are getting into a case where community
> members dedicated to this issue are asking for a release, and it is
> going into the core black hole, meaning there is no visibility on what
> actions core is taking to make a decision. (This is not a criticism,
> but rather an observation of how it looks from a non-core-member
> perspective.)

It's not exactly going into a black hole, but there was some
communication between Tom and Andres on Friday that left Andres with
the impression that if he spent the weekend testing the new code for
problems and things went well, we'd be able to get a release this
week. So he spent his weekend on that, rather than, saying, doing
something fun, and now Tom wants to wait two weeks. I'm not accusing
anybody of anything, but if Andres felt like beating his head against
a nearby wall at this point, I'd sympathize.

Obviously, we need to do what is best for the project overall, not
what is best for any individual developer's cranial integrity. But
the decision-making process here is not entirely clear, and it's not
entirely obvious that we're making the right ones.

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