Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

[Hans-Jürgen Schönig]

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Personally, I think there are alot of large features that ppl have been
hard at getting complete in time for June 1st that we should stick to it,
else we're going to end up with 'yet another release' delayed in hopes
that the outstanding bugs in Win32 will get fixed in a reasonable amount
of time ...
June 1st, let's do beta for 7.5 and then branch onto 8.0, with 8.0 key'd
to the Win32 Native port being finished ...
If that means 8.0 happens to be September 1st, so be it ...
 

Bruce agreed that this had been vague before today, so if people have 
had this date in mind and have been working to it, perhaps they have 
some telepathic abilities I lack ...

We missed on PITR *and* Win32 last year. ISTM there's a bit of a 
credibility issue at stake, so it might well be worth taking a couple of 
weeks leeway if that's what is required.

The other point, especially about Win32, is to see if we can spread the 
load a bit. Perhaps Claudio, Magnus, Merlin and Bruce should start 
trying to farm out specific tasks. I for one will be very upset if it 
misses this release.

cheers
andrew

This is exactly the point ...
If you go to a conference you will ALWAYS face the same questions:
        - when can we have sync. replication and failover
        - when can we have PITR
        - when can we have win32
People won't believe us anymore if you keep telling them "in the next 
release".
If a feature freeze is made on August 1st or even later it would be ok 
because nobody is doing major database changes in summer anyway.
Currently I cannot see a major reason why people should upgrade to 7.5 
(ARC and so forth are great but they are no killer features). Maybe in 
this case it is worth waiting for 2 major features to make it into the 
release (let's say PITR + nested transactions or win32 and pitr or 2pc 
and nested transactions). This would point out that significant progress 
is made.

        Regards,
                Hans
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