On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:26, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Just so that everyone is aware, we are going to push the freeze date > >>> for 7.5 to July 1st. > >>> > >>> Although we feel that there are enough improvements and features > >>> already in place for 7.5, Tom's felt that if we gave it that extra > >>> month, we could also have PITR in place for 7.5 ... > >>> > >>> If anyone is working on other features that they feel can be > >>> polished off before the July 1st deadline, we would be most happy to > >>> incorporate those as well, but do recommend submitting patches for > >>> review *sooner*, rather then later, so that any recommended > >>> corrections can be addressed before teh deadline. > >>> > >> > >> I welcome this, as I always thought June 1 was too soon. However, I > >> think that the process by which the date was eventually arrived at > >> was unfortunate. > >> > >> I would modestly suggest that there should be a minimum period of > >> notice of a feature freeze - 6 weeks or 2 months seems about right to > >> me, given the > > > > > > Oh, you mean the original freeze date that was set at the start of the > > dev cycle 6 months ago? > > > > I am far from being the only person to whom this was less than clear. I > also know that when I discussed this with one or two members of the core > team *they* were not clear about it either. > > Maybe I missed something in an email somewhere ... >
The June 1st date was first mentioned on list in mid-March (to me), but wasn't generally announced until May under a specific heading. If it was set in January, I was never knowingly party to that info. Major-architectural changes notwithstanding, xlog archiving was originally completed in late April, having started in Feb. A published schedule might have helped all of us to understand the impact of an extra weeks discussion etc.. Personally, I feel I had good notice, but that doesn't mean it was possible for me to finish by that time... Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org