Re: 8.5 development schedule

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> As I mentioned in the core discussion, I'm a bit concerned that this
> would have the effect of choking off development too soon.  We could
> have a situation where nothing major is supposed to be getting worked
> on from Nov 15 to mid-May, which seems much too long.  So "very small"
> seems too strict.  Robert's suggestion of a 1000-line cutoff might be
> workable though.

Maybe we should have a hard rule now, but then leave ourselves the
option to relax it (perhaps not publically) once we actually get to the
last CF?  I dunno, just a thought.  I do share your concern about not
choking off development for too long, but it sure seems like we've
always got a big patch or two that we're trying to get into the next
release near the end..
Thanks,
    Stephen