On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Also, what do you think of Simon's plan for a 2-stage feature freeze? Maybe
>> not so far apart ... maybe a month apart?
>
> I didn't feel a need for it. It's true that the closer we get to
> feature freeze, the smaller the patch you should expect to drop on us
> sight unseen. Simon's proposal implies that this is a binary condition,
> but it's really more of a continuous process. Another point is that
> we've never wanted to discourage people from going full tilt right up
> to feature freeze; if we say "you must have something credible X months
> before freeze", that diminishes the value of free time that people might
> have after that point.
And, our 'feature freezes' have tended to be somewhat fluid ... its only
when we finally hit the beta cycle itself that things become locked in
stone ...
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