Re: 8.5 development schedule

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

We've never scheduled a "beta preparation" phase like that before,
and I don't recall you complaining about the lack of one in the 8.4
schedule.  Personally I think the slip is entirely due to the final
CF taking five months (we closed it 25-March) where we'd expected
something closer to one month.
        regards, tom lane