Now that we are in feature freeze, I wanted to outline a few things people can anticipate during this period.
First, you might notice I am trying to stick to a schedule and move the process along as best as I can. It isn't that I want to be harsh, but the community wants to get 8.3 released as soon as reasonable, so having everyone moving forward in a coordinated fashion works best. You can already see people asking questions about items in the patch queue, like how to handle TOAST settings and the new XML functionality. Second, we have a significant number of complex patches in the patch queue, which is no surprise. A lot of people did a lot of coding for 8.3. The simple patches were applied weeks ago, so we are left with a bundle of complex patches to review and apply. Many patches require us to make decisions as a community, and do performance testing and analysis. Much of the hard work is happening now rather than a month ago because we know we have to do the difficult analysis now if we are to move forward. So, odds are the email lists are going to have many long threads as we hammer out solutions to every one of the open issues, and we will just keep chipping away at the patch queue until every item has been addressed. I know the patch queue looks like we might never get through it, but we always have, and will for 8.3 as well. So, for the next few weeks, we will chip away and agonize over every decision until we have 8.3 ready for beta testing. In addition, I have been thankful that a number of people who did not complete changes requested by the community before feature freeze have resurfaced and will supply new patch versions in the new few days. This will allow us to complete these items, rather than adding another TODO entry. Frankly, one of the reasons we stop development during feature freeze and beta is so we can focus our community energy on these issues. That shift has already happened, and we are hammering out solutions. 8.3 promised to be a banner release because of it. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
