Re: a few thoughts on the schedule

On 2015-05-13 11:49:45 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Let me put a finer point on this --- whatever gets pushed to 9.6
> > unreasonably will be a feature we don't have in 9.5 and will discourage
> > future development. I know we can't do magic, but now is the time to
> > try.
>
> And on the flip side, whatever is pushed to 9.6 will not create a
> stability issue in 9.5.

I'm not sure it's that simple. For one I think patches don't age that
well. Often enough patches don't really get significantly more review
when they're delayed, and at the same time the understanding of the
innards reduces again. But more importantly not integrating things that
are either ready or nearly ready and that have been waiting for a long
while, might be better for stability short term. But I think in the
mid/long term it creates a lack of reviewers, contributors and
eventually committers.

Obviously that's *not* meant as a call to just commit everything
pending.

Greetings,

Andres Freund