Re: Release planning (was: Re: Status report)

Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 7/10/2004 11:02 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > If you get full control of PostgreSQL, you can dictate what will happen.
> > Until then, I will follow the community consensus, which may or may not
> > match your opinion.
>
> Marc isn't the only one who didn't like waiting for more features going
> into 7.5 two months ago. I agree that it is too late now to push things
> just out. But the mistake made wasn't ours.
>
> What this repeated discussion about release plans and schedules (and we
> have it every release) indicates to me is that we might miss something.
> As you pointed out elsewhere, a 9-12 month development cycle just isn't
> enough to get those big features done. But I think that stretching the
> release cycle to two years and holding back all the smaller features as
> well isn't a good idea either.
>
> I think in the future we have to force all large features, those that
> probably need more than 6 months of development time, to be properly
> #ifdef'd. Then it wouldn't be that big of a deal to release more often.

Alvaro started out with ifdef's but it got too confusing and we all
agreed to just go with a normal patch. He just hits too much code.
PITR could be done that way though.

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