My point is that it isn't the patch submitters we are waiting on anymore. It is the backlog of patches that need review/adjustment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > I am still going through my mailbox, trying to address all the open > > patches so we can move toward beta. Of course, many of the patches I > > kept need some adjustment to get applied (e.g. configuration file > > location) so it is slow going. > > > > However, we still have PITR unapplied, autovacuum unapplied, and nested > > transactions don't have savepoint support, so we are still a while away > > from beta. I think we should start thinking of beta as August 1 rather > > than mid-July. > > And so we fall into the hole we dig for ourselves with each release, where > the beta period takes almost as long as the development period itself ... > originally, this was all supposed to be done for June 1st, but we pushed > it back to July 1st since ppl only needed "another month" ... then, July > 1st, we did the feature freeze, but because so much was left to be > applied, we decided to leave bundling first beta until mid-July ... > > If six extra weeks hasn't been enough, I have little faith that adding > 'yet another 2 weeks' is going to be enough either ... leave them for 7.6 > then ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
