Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:26, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Just so that everyone is aware, we are going to push the freeze date
> >>> for 7.5 to July 1st.
> >>>
> >>> Although we feel that there are enough improvements and features
> >>> already in place for 7.5, Tom's felt that if we gave it that extra
> >>> month, we could also have PITR in place for 7.5 ...
> >>>
> >>> If anyone is working on other features that they feel can be
> >>> polished off before the July 1st deadline, we would be most happy to
> >>> incorporate those as well, but do recommend submitting patches for
> >>> review *sooner*, rather then later, so that any recommended
> >>> corrections can be addressed before teh deadline.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I welcome this, as I always thought June 1 was too soon. However, I
> >> think that the process by which the date was eventually arrived at
> >> was unfortunate.
> >>
> >> I would modestly suggest that there should be a minimum period of
> >> notice of a feature freeze - 6 weeks or 2 months seems about right to
> >> me, given the
> >
> >
> > Oh, you mean the original freeze date that was set at the start of the
> > dev cycle 6 months ago?
> >
>
> I am far from being the only person to whom this was less than clear. I
> also know that when I discussed this with one or two members of the core
> team *they* were not clear about it either.
>
> Maybe I missed something in an email somewhere ...
>

The June 1st date was first mentioned on list in mid-March (to me), but
wasn't generally announced until May under a specific heading. If it was
set in January, I was never knowingly party to that info.

Major-architectural changes notwithstanding, xlog archiving was
originally completed in late April, having started in Feb.

A published schedule might have helped all of us to understand the
impact of an extra weeks discussion etc..

Personally, I feel I had good notice, but that doesn't mean it was
possible for me to finish by that time...

Best Regards, Simon Riggs