X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F7F9FB45F for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:25:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11893-10 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 01:25:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from community1.commandprompt.com (host-130.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1619FB442 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:25:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.101] (cpe-024-211-165-134.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.165.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by community1.commandprompt.com (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id k821P4G6009108 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: <44F8DD69.6070209@dunslane.net> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:24:57 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060804 Fedora/1.0.4-0.5.1.fc5 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian CC: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane , josh@agliodbs.com Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta References: <200609020036.k820aWr26205@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: <200609020036.k820aWr26205@momjian.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.135 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200609/92 X-Sequence-Number: 89621 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Uh, Tom has been tracking Gavin on the bitmap patch every week for > weeks, and I pummelled EnterpriseDB/Jonah over the recursive query > patch. Neither effort was very fruitful, but tracking wasn't what made > them fail. I am not saying tracking is wrong, but rather tracking would > not have helped make these things happen faster. > > It would make the process more transparent, which is something several people have expressed a desire for. cheers andrew