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? :-)