Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers
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Msg-id 1303368211.7189.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 21:09 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> But
> even then I think we'd have this problem of people being unwilling to
> give up on jamming stuff into a release, regardless of the scheduling
> impact of doing so.  I actually think the problem of getting releases
> out on time is a *much* bigger problem for us than how long or short
> CommitFests are.

I think to really address that problem, you need to think about shorter
release cycles overall, like every 6 months.  Otherwise, the current 12
to 14 month horizon is just too long psychologically.



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