Re: 8.5 development schedule

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, that is more accurate, but looking at the schedule:
>
> > 1st November 2008 - final commit fest begins
> > 1st January 2009 - beta 1
> > 1st March 2009 - 8.4.0 release
>
> > How could we have possibly completed the last commit-fest and gotten
> > ready for beta in two months --- that is just not realistic.
>
> We didn't know that at the time, though. We thought the last CF would
> take a month plus. And up till November the CFs *were* getting done
> in about a month.
>
> In retrospect, the CF idea took some of the edge off the problem of
> lots of large patches arriving at the feature freeze deadline, but it
> is far from having eliminated the problem.

The beta preparation is dealing with all open issues, which is different
than the focus of the commit-fest. Ideally we would be addressing those
open/bug issues during normal development, but for the hard problems
seem to linger and then we have to deal with them during beta
preparation, which can take 1-2 months.

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