Re: 9.5 feature count

On 27 August 2015 at 23:20, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:13:19AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> > <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > Maybe there's a reasonable way to measure releases (my 8.0 is bigger
> > > than your 9.1!), but I don't think this is it.
> >
> >
> > I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think that anyone actually
> > thinks of it that way. Most people tend to think of a release in terms
> > of the big, exciting features, or the smaller features that happened
> > to scratch their particular itch.
>
> I agree. I think the count tells us how focused we are in working on a
> few big things or many small things, e.g. when we don't have many big
> features in a major release, the count tends to be high as we clean up
> previously-released big features.
>

Anything where Hot Standby == {one line changes in default settings} has
been distilled too far to draw any meaningful conclusions. They simply
reflect the editing style in use at that time, which has changed over time.

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