| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org, andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Plan for feature freeze? |
| Date: | 2004-05-01 15:36:38 |
| Message-ID: | 200405011536.i41FacN06333@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On 30-Apr-04, at 8:53 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > For me even September 1st does not seem too late. Major version up
> > bring users pains including backup/restore application
> > imcompatibilty... IMO to justify those pains we need to give users
> > major enhancements. Honestly I don't understand why we should rush the
> > major version up.
>
> Yeah, I completely agree. I think a feature freeze date of August or
> September is definitely worth considering.
Tatsuo brought up the an excellent point (that I have been saying for a
long time), that the number of must-fix bugs from previous releases is
shrinking, and the complexity of new features is increasing.
This dictates the that length of our release process should lengthen
over time.
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