Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > Anyway, is there anyone who thinks the "cycle the queue every 6 weeks or 2
> > months or suitable short period" is a *bad* idea? It might be hard to pull
> > off, but we won't know until we try.
>
> It seems worth a try --- we can certainly abandon it easily if it
> doesn't work.
>
> Personally I feel every six weeks would be too short: we'd be talking
> only a month of work between commit-fests. I like a two-month cycle
> partly because it wouldn't rotate relative to the calendar: we'd always
> know that the first half of every odd-numbered month, or something like
> that, is commit-fest time.

Sounds fine to me. Basically it is a "reviewers, get your heads out of
your monitors and help other patch submitters". Not a lot of additional
fun for reviewers, of course, but probably necessary.

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