Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004
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Msg-id 20040601135708.C99557@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> 
>> Just so that everyone is aware, we are going to push the freeze date for 
>> 7.5 to July 1st.
>> 
>> Although we feel that there are enough improvements and features already 
>> in place for 7.5, Tom's felt that if we gave it that extra month, we could 
>> also have PITR in place for 7.5 ...
>> 
>> If anyone is working on other features that they feel can be polished off 
>> before the July 1st deadline, we would be most happy to incorporate those 
>> as well, but do recommend submitting patches for review *sooner*, rather 
>> then later, so that any recommended corrections can be addressed before 
>> teh deadline.
>> 
>
> I welcome this, as I always thought June 1 was too soon. However, I think 
> that the process by which the date was eventually arrived at was unfortunate.
>
> I would modestly suggest that there should be a minimum period of notice of a 
> feature freeze - 6 weeks or 2 months seems about right to me, given the

Oh, you mean the original freeze date that was set at the start of the dev 
cycle 6 months ago?

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