Josh Berkus wrote: > Chris, all: > > > Well, I note (and I'm not being unkind or anything here) that a lot of > > the high level committers we have haven't been so active this release. > > Peter and Joe haven't been around much and Jan has been busy with Slony. > > We also lost Thomas Lockhart. Neil's also away on holidays. You and > > Tom have basically been doing all the reviewing - a great job - but I > > can't believe Tom hasn't cracked yet :P > > Actually, this is a *big* part of the problem. In 7.3, by unplanned > circumstance, we got into a cycle of doing feature freeze and starting beta > during the summer. This is a bad cycle -- the Europeans take their 3-week > vacations, the Americans go to (and spend many hours preparing for) a bunch > of conventions, Students go to internships, people take long weekends, get > married, etc. ( This is probably why many American corporations end their > fiscal year in midsummer; nothing is going to get done anyway, might as well > clean up. ) > > The result is that we chronically have less manpower when just when we need > everybody. And some of us end up spending 11 hours a day in front of the > screen when we should be outside soaking up Vitamin D. > > Therefore, I propose that the next version either feature freeze in March or > in October, but NOT in May-August. Which we do -- March or October -- can be > based on an evaluation of the outstanding post-7.5 patches in January.
True, but northern-hemisphere summer is only 6 weeks old, and we have had these issues for many months --- it isn't a new problem. Alvaro didn't get the feedback he needed in March either. :-( -- 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 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
