Re: Releasing in September

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Releasing in September
Date: 2016-01-21 04:46:56
Message-ID: CAM3SWZRwVr+oq67wdEJthRp85h0bFbTFAjxWSJOG6MHd2AT10g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Perhaps some people are more interested in implementing new
> features than working on bugs and would just continue hacking and
> arguing about new features, at least a stability period may attract
> more committer attention into actual bug fixes, in short: no new
> features can be committed until the previous versions has reached at
> least beta2, rc, whatever. This may accelerate the stability process.

Or it might just accelerate the amount of time it takes to *declare*
having reached that milestone. Besides, do you really think that
people need to be able to commit something before seriously working on
it?

Rules that are expressly coercive are a *bad* idea.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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