Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
