Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dan Ports <drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, andrew <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, cbbrowne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, greg <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers
Date: 2011-04-21 06:43:31
Message-ID: 1303368211.7189.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 21:09 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> But
> even then I think we'd have this problem of people being unwilling to
> give up on jamming stuff into a release, regardless of the scheduling
> impact of doing so. I actually think the problem of getting releases
> out on time is a *much* bigger problem for us than how long or short
> CommitFests are.

I think to really address that problem, you need to think about shorter
release cycles overall, like every 6 months. Otherwise, the current 12
to 14 month horizon is just too long psychologically.

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