Re: damage control mode - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: damage control mode
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Msg-id 603c8f071001100455o25390b33gd8d60c2f592243a8@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: damage control mode  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> But really if beta slips because we don't like the looks of our open issues
>> list, thats signicantly better than the last couple releases where we held
>> everything up just to get things into CVS months after feature freeze had
>> passed us by.
>
> It is, unless it's because we created those open items by committing
> things too late in the cycle, even though it wasn't quite ready, "so
> the author won't have to wait another year for a release".

Exactly.  Or even - it was ready, but even code that's ready can have
bugs.  The more time you give yourself before release, the more likely
you are to find a few of those.

...Robert


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