Re: Releasing in September

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Perhaps some people are more interested in implementing new
>> features than working on bugs and would just continue hacking and
>> arguing about new features, at least a stability period may attract
>> more committer attention into actual bug fixes, in short: no new
>> features can be committed until the previous versions has reached at
>> least beta2, rc, whatever. This may accelerate the stability process.
>
> Or it might just accelerate the amount of time it takes to *declare*
> having reached that milestone.

Yes. I think that's been a problem already, and closing development
for prolonged periods of time will make it worse.

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