On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:38:59AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: > > > Well, we have been working on stuff for the past month so it was not > > > like we were waiting on SE-PG to move forward. > > > > Stuff related to the CommitFest? > > > > AFAICS, the only committer who has done any significant review or > > committing of patches in the last month is Heikki, who extensively > > reworked and then committed infrastructure changes for recovery on > > February 18th (2 days shy of a month ago) and then extensively > > reviewed Hot Standby and SE-PostgreSQL. It's really, really good that > > those patches have finally received some extensive review, both > > because now some version of each of them will likely make it into 8.5, > > and because now we have only a handful of patches left that Tom has > > said are pretty close to being committable. But I don't see how you > > can say it didn't delay the release. > > You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to > beta. You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January > that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left.
What are those, and are there any you can delegate, or at least shout out for help on? > Tom has done work fixing optimizer bugs introduced in 8.4. I have had > EnterpriseDB work to do and am working on the release notes now. The > bottom line is that there is lots of cleanup required to get to beta > independent of the last commit fest work. How much of this cleanup work can be distributed? > I agree if we had said "no" to those patches we could be farther > now, but I am not sure how much farther. One way to find out is to make a list of all the things that happen and see how to get more people, productively, on it :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
