Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
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Msg-id 25583.1157151710@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Bruce,
>>> What's VC?
>> 
>> MS Visual C++

> Given that this could lead to us recruiting more developers out of our 
> Windows user base, I'd prioritize it.

Yeah, that's why I listed it as a major item.  I haven't had a chance to
look at the patch, but if it's not too ugly I would like to get it in
this time rather than next --- that could lead directly to having more
people available next time.

> If you look at the two "incomplete" patches, and the "misfired" one 
> (Bitmaps, Updatable Views, and WITH RECURSIVE) all of them are patches 
> where the submitter had been working on them months ago, and might have 
> made the release (or let us know they weren't on schedule) if we'd held 
> them to an earlier deadline.

Perhaps, but I'm not sure what we can or should do about it.  Moving
deadlines up will either create a dead zone where we all sit around
twiddling our thumbs, or people will keep on coding till the last minute
anyway.

I think having a few patches that don't make the deadline isn't a bad
thing: it means we didn't have people sitting idle.  It's not like the
work will go to waste --- those things can still get in in the next
devel cycle.
        regards, tom lane


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