Bruce,
Realistically I just don't see getting everything in the ToDo patch list in;
my vote is that we start deferring stuff for 8.4 if it doesn't have a
reviewer, except for items which were submitted early in the cycle (and to
whom it would be unfair).
If that means shortening the 8.4 cycle somewhat, I'm for that ... feature
freeze in Feburary would be even better than April, because it means we could
be in Beta for the May-June-July conferences, and increase our probability of
being able to release at a major conference or PostgreSQL conference.
Obviously for 8.4 reviewers need to start reviewing stuff from the first week
of the development cycle. I also don't actually see anything wrong with a
3-month feature freeze if we can somehow branch development earlier. Easy
for me to say, I know.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco