On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 20:26, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> >>>> Since we appear to be still holding the commitfest open for Sync Rep, >>>> I guess this ought to get reviewed. >>> >>> Or else we should close the CommitFest and cut alpha4. Anyone have an >>> opinion on which way to go? >> >> I think we can give Sync Rep until the 15th, given the pace of work on >> it. It is a major feature, and a complicated one. > > Sure, but there are other features, major and minor, that we have > postponed to 9.2. In the normal course of events, sync rep would have > been marked Returned with Feedback a month ago. I like the feature, > but I have to say I'm not very pleased that we seem to have fallen > into a pattern of believing that some major features are somehow > exempted from the scheduling deadline and others are not. I am sure > there are plenty of other people who would have liked a six week > extension of the usual CommitFest deadlines too, but they didn't get > it (and for the most part, were pretty gracious about that). > >> We could even cut a pre-synch-rep Alpha4 *now*, and follow that with a >> post-synch-rep Alpha5 sometime around April 1. >> >> That'll put us in a good position for beta, and also to see what >> specific issue SynR adds. > > Frankly, I think we should be aiming to get a beta out in April, not > another alpha.
That would be good, but in order to get there, +1 for cutting a new alpha even if syncrep isn't ready for it yet. That way we can at least get some more testing on all the non-syncrep code. That is assuming that cutting an alpha release isn't all that much work, but IIRC it's not. (Hey, I know it's not much work for me, but someone who actually does the work should comment on the total amount...) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
