Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

Thank's Robert,

that was probably what Bruce needs to call me every other hour now ...

Jan

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:55, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> >
>> > Maybe a better strategy would be to get a release out soon but not wait 6
>> > months for another release which would contain the Win32 port and the PITR
>> > stuff (assuming those aren't done in time for this release).
>>
>> What concerns me is that we thought that after 7.3, and didn't do much
>> work on either until we got near 7.4 release. I wonder if this is just
>> going to be a pattern, where these items are so large, we can't get any
>> motivation to focus on them until we get near the final release. I
>> guess if each final release gets us a little closer, eventually we will
>> get there, but this process is not ideal.
>>
>> The big puzzle is how do you get people (including myself) motivated to
>> work on a feature that takes a _huge_ amount of work to see any payoff?
>> I would like to know. Anyone?
>>
>
> Here's a sure to be wildly unpopular suggestion:
>
> Make the deciding factor for the next release support of "foo" (foo can
> be win32, pitr, replication, 2PC, whatever...). This would put ample
> pressure on the developers of "foo" to get it done since the whole
> release rides on their shoulders. It also might encourage others to help
> out more since they can't get something new until "foo" is completed.
> This would also prioritize said developers time on the large project
> rather than other non-prioritized tasks, and it also helps to ensure a
> "killer feature" for those who want such things,
>
> Robert Treat

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