Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict > > what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that > > we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. > > > > How do other open source projects predict these things? The most visible > > project I know that did that was Mozilla, and it was very unpredictive, > > and they had a higher percentage of paid folks than we do. > > Not to sound like a broken FreeBSD drum, but they manage to do it, and > afaik a pretty good job of it. > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html is an example. > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html is also interesting. > > I suspect a big part of why/how they can do this is they have a much > larger developer pool than PostgreSQL; I believe there's over 2000 > people with commit access, and there are probably 100-200 people who are > actively developing code for FBSD. But it's been some time since I > followed the details of FBSD development, so I could be way off on these > WAGs.
Uh, we could do it too if we didn't require each release to be as stable as the previous one. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (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 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
