Jan Wieck wrote: > On 7/10/2004 11:02 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > If you get full control of PostgreSQL, you can dictate what will happen. > > Until then, I will follow the community consensus, which may or may not > > match your opinion. > > Marc isn't the only one who didn't like waiting for more features going > into 7.5 two months ago. I agree that it is too late now to push things > just out. But the mistake made wasn't ours. > > What this repeated discussion about release plans and schedules (and we > have it every release) indicates to me is that we might miss something. > As you pointed out elsewhere, a 9-12 month development cycle just isn't > enough to get those big features done. But I think that stretching the > release cycle to two years and holding back all the smaller features as > well isn't a good idea either. > > I think in the future we have to force all large features, those that > probably need more than 6 months of development time, to be properly > #ifdef'd. Then it wouldn't be that big of a deal to release more often.
Alvaro started out with ifdef's but it got too confusing and we all agreed to just go with a normal patch. He just hits too much code. PITR could be done that way though. -- 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 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
