Re: 8.5 development schedule

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> One thing Peter forgot to mention here is that the next-to-last 
> commitfest is the *last* commitfest for new major features.  For the 
> *last* commitfest, any patch introduced either has to be a resubmission 
> of something we've seen at a prior CF, or has to be very "small" (i.e. 
> not many lines/files, no side effects, no API or defined standard API).

We've been kicking around variations of that idea already.

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.
        regards, tom lane