Re: Two weeks to feature freeze - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
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Msg-id 200306220255.h5M2tV002549@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Two weeks to feature freeze  ("Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Two weeks to feature freeze  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
Re: Two weeks to feature freeze  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Maybe a better strategy would be to get a release out soon but not wait 6
> months for another release which would contain the Win32 port and the PITR
> stuff (assuming those aren't done in time for this release).

What concerns me is that we thought that after 7.3, and didn't do much
work on either until we got near 7.4 release.  I wonder if this is just
going to be a pattern, where these items are so large, we can't get any
motivation to focus on them until we get near the final release.  I
guess if each final release gets us a little closer, eventually we will
get there, but this process is not ideal.

The big puzzle is how do you get people (including myself) motivated to
work on a feature that takes a _huge_ amount of work to see any payoff? 
I would like to know.  Anyone?

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