Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:50:56 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
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Tom Lane wrote:

> > I'm all for bouncing 
> > stuff that's not ready to go, but bouncing stuff because we haven't 
> > recruited enough code reviewers is just bad practice.
> 
> Well, it's taken us the full month to get this far through the queue, so
> I'd sure like to have more people on board reviewing next time.  Alvaro
> helped but I miss Neil Conway, and some other people have helped in the
> past.  However --- the present situation has nothing to do with lack of
> reviewers, it's lack of time to finish the patches.

Also, for next time it would be good to have the reviewers got through
the patches *before* feature freeze, so that developers get early
feedback.  (Which in turn means more time to finish the patches).

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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