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.