Re: Two weeks to feature freeze - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0306230725470.23701-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: Two weeks to feature freeze  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe a better strategy would be to get a release out soon but not wait 6
> > months for another release which would contain the Win32 port and the PITR
> > stuff (assuming those aren't done in time for this release).
> 
> What concerns me is that we thought that after 7.3, and didn't do much
> work on either until we got near 7.4 release.  I wonder if this is just
> going to be a pattern, where these items are so large, we can't get any
> motivation to focus on them until we get near the final release.  I
> guess if each final release gets us a little closer, eventually we will
> get there, but this process is not ideal.
> 
> The big puzzle is how do you get people (including myself) motivated to
> work on a feature that takes a _huge_ amount of work to see any payoff? 
> I would like to know.  Anyone?

Pizza?  :-)



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