Re: Assisting developers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Assisting developers
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Msg-id 200407131721.i6DHL3329281@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Assisting developers  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > The result is that we chronically have less manpower when just when we need 
> > everybody.   And some of us end up spending 11 hours a day in front of the 
> > screen when we should be outside soaking up Vitamin D.
> > 
> > Therefore, I propose that the next version either feature freeze in March or 
> > in October, but NOT in May-August.  Which we do -- March or October -- can be 
> > based on an evaluation of the outstanding post-7.5 patches in January.   
> 
> True, but northern-hemisphere summer is only 6 weeks old, and we have
> had these issues for many months --- it isn't a new problem.   Alvaro
> didn't get the feedback he needed in March either.  :-(

Oh, and neither did Simon.  :-(

In fact Simon coded a whole client-side approach to PITR before I
studied his ideas and realized it needs to be done as a server
subprocess.

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