Re: PostgreSQL 17 Release Management Team & Feature Freeze

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 12:30 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2024-04-08 09:26:09 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 6:50 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > And maybe we need to think of a way to further mitigate this crush of
> > last minute commits. e.g. In the last week, you can't have more
> > feature commits, or more lines of insertions in your commits, than you
> > did in the prior 3 weeks combined. I don't know. I think this mad rush
> > of last-minute commits is bad for the project.
>
> Some will just polish commits until the last minute, until the
> the dot's on the i's really shine, others will continue picking up more CF
> entries until the freeze is reached, others will push half baked stuff.

I agree with this part.

Aside from considering how to institute some rules for mitigating the
last-minute rush, it might also be a good idea to consider how to
improve testing the new commits during beta. FWIW in each year, after
feature freeze I personally pick some new features that I didn't get
involved with during the development and do intensive reviews in
April. It might be good if more people did things like that. That
might help finding half baked features earlier and improve the quality
in general. So for example, we list features that could require more
reviews (e.g. because of its volume, complexity, and a span of
influence etc.) and we do intensive reviews for these items. Each item
should be reviewed by other than the author and the committer. We may
want to set aside a specific period for intensive testing.

Regards,

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