Re: My head is spinning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 August 2002 10:40 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 22 August 2002 06:07 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > There is so much going on, I am having trouble keeping things straight.
> > > > Just thought I would let everyone know.  ;-)
> 
> > > Quite busy, eh? :-)
> 
> > Yep.  I don't know where to start.
> 
> Well, Ok, I think we're going in the right direction.  The one thing I would 
> like to see is a release target for 7.2.2.  There is a substantial interest 
> in our userbase for this, judging from a thread among OpenACS developers.  
> Thus far it's not hit bigger news sites -- but I can tell you right now, with 
> my media experience, that people will assume the worst -- and if/when this 
> hits slashdot, we really need a response to 'whence 7.2.2'. BugTraq's one 
> thing -- slashdot is another thing entirely.  I'm quite surprized, in fact, 
> it hasn't hit Linux Today, slashdot, or Linux Weekly News.  When/if it does, 
> *SHA-ZAM*.  I'd personally like the news item to read 'PostgreSQL developers 
> release security update' rather than 'Security hole found in PostgreSQL'.
> 
> If push comes to shove I can push RPM's out Saturday, if the tarball is ready.  
> If not, Monday morning at the earliest.

You bring up a good point.  We don't want to appear reactive on this, we
want to be proactive.  The CVS is all ready for release, so there isn't
anything holding us up except our quality control.

> > > Hey, Bruce, gyroscopes spin to keep them stable.....
> 
> > That doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> Well, we've already seen kudos go out to Marc.  I think a round of applause 
> should also go to some other people -- but in particular Bruce has always 
> done a fine job of getting the release ready for packaging.  Not to take away 
> from other's efforts, just maybe to help encourage someone else who is 
> feeling overwhelmed (a couple hundred thousand lines of Fortran, a complete 
> website redesign, a major renovation, and some major engineering/surveying 
> work have my attention here... and that's just one job).

Thanks. It is just that I usually have control over all the open threads
so I can know they are all tied up.  Right now, I have a mailbox full of
1/2 discussed items that haven't been resolved.  I will need to start
reading all of them tomorrow and try to get closure on them.

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