Re: 9.5 feature count - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: 9.5 feature count
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In response to Re: 9.5 feature count  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 27 August 2015 at 23:20, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
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.

Anything where Hot Standby == {one line changes in default settings} has been distilled too far to draw any meaningful conclusions. They simply reflect the editing style in use at that time, which has changed over time.

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