On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict > what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that > we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. > > How do other open source projects predict these things? The most visible > project I know that did that was Mozilla, and it was very unpredictive, > and they had a higher percentage of paid folks than we do.
Not to sound like a broken FreeBSD drum, but they manage to do it, and afaik a pretty good job of it. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/todo.html is an example. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/schedule.html is also interesting. I suspect a big part of why/how they can do this is they have a much larger developer pool than PostgreSQL; I believe there's over 2000 people with commit access, and there are probably 100-200 people who are actively developing code for FBSD. But it's been some time since I followed the details of FBSD development, so I could be way off on these WAGs. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
