Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:05:15 -0700
From: Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> > I did try to get us additional help in reviewing.  Neil was unavailable,
> > and Alvaro could only give part of his time.
> 
> It strikes me that setting feature freeze in midsummer might not be the
> best strategy for having manpower available to review --- people tend to
> be on vacation in August.  Maybe the answer is just to move the dates a
> bit one way or the other.

Hmm...but if you're going to do that, why not do that now: push the
beta date back by, say, a month (or however long you had in mind) for
this cycle.  That way, the two major patches that are likely to be
dropped for this cycle stand a chance to make it into this release,
and you accomplish your goal of moving the dates a bit all at the same
time.


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Kevin Brown					      kevin@sysexperts.com