Re: 9.5 feature count - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 9.5 feature count
Date
Msg-id 20150827222020.GA14869@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 9.5 feature count  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: 9.5 feature count  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:13:19AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Maybe there's a reasonable way to measure releases (my 8.0 is bigger
> > than your 9.1!), but I don't think this is it.
> 
> 
> I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think that anyone actually
> thinks of it that way. Most people tend to think of a release in terms
> of the big, exciting features, or the smaller features that happened
> to scratch their particular itch.

I agree.  I think the count tells us how focused we are in working on a
few big things or many small things, e.g. when we don't have many big
features in a major release, the count tends to be high as we clean up
previously-released big features.

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