Re: Sync Rep for 2011CF1

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 02/09/2011 07:53 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> The previous three commit fests contained about 50 patches each and
>>> lasted one month each.  The current commit fest contains about 100
>>> patches, so it shouldn't be surprising that it will take about 2 months
>>> to get through it.
>
>> Personally I think it's not unreasonable to extend the final commitfest
>> of the release some. It doesn't need to be a huge amount longer,
>> certainly not five months, but a couple of weeks to a month might be fair.
>
> Yeah.  IIRC, in our first cycle using the CF process, we expected the
> last CF to take longer than others.  I am not sure where the idea came
> from that we'd be able to finish this one in a month.

It came from the fact that we did it last time.

> I do accept the fact that we mustn't let it drag on indefinitely.
> But two months instead of one isn't indefinite, and it seems more
> realistic given the amount of work to be done.

The work will expand to fill the time available.

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