Re: Schedule and Release Management Team for PG10

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2017-03-29 16:04:50 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> > My own thought is that there's room for at least a few days' slop in
>> > the end date of the final commitfest, depending on what patches remain
>> > open and what the prospects are for getting them done. (In the past
>> > we've sometimes let the final fest stretch on indefinitely, which is
>> > clearly the Wrong Thing; but that doesn't mean that the Right Thing is
>> > to say that it ends at 2017-04-01 00:00 UTC no matter what.) The RMT
>> > should look at things in another day or two and make a judgment call
>> > about that.
>>
>> I was rather surprised to see the March commitfest declared to exactly
>> one month and feature freeze immediately thereafter. Last time around
>> we left 2 weeks between CF end and feature freeze; the previous one I
>> think we had the final CF last two months. Not stretch on indefinitely,
>> but we know the final CF for a cycle takes more effort than previous
>> ones, so it seems reasonable to give more time. We have a large number
>> of patches still waiting for review.
>
> +1

+1

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