Re: 8.4 open items list

Robert Haas wrote:
> > Wow, that is a large list. ?Getting this all on a wiki is really what
> > needed to happen. ?I can't keep an open list current enough to be
> > useful.
> 
> Ah, glad you like.   I thought you'd been arguing the other side of
> that point with me for several days, but no matter - it seems like we
> might be converging on some kind of consensus here.

I prefer to do as little as possible.

> >> I think we should also boot everything in the "pre-existing bugs"
> >> category, and the first two items from the "questions" category, which
> >> don't seem important enough to worry about at this stage of the game.
> >> That would leave us with 14 items, all of which look reasonably
> >> relevant and 8.4-related.
> >
> > I think pushing "pre-existing bugs" to 8.5 is a mistake, first from a
> > software quality standpoint, and second because we are going to have a
> > lots of downtime during beta while we wait for feedback, so we can work
> > on some of these issues then. ?These things are not going to be any
> > easier to fix during 8.5 than now so let's make 8.4 as good as we can
> > without overly-delaying it.
> 
> What is the threshold for "has to be fixed before we can go to beta"
> versus "has to be fixed before release"?  I'm not opposed to fixing
> the bugs, but it seems like every day that we postpone cutting a beta
> is one more day until release, and so I think our immediate goal
> should be to fix all of the things that need to be fixed before beta
> can start.

Well, we don't want to be changing user-visible behavior during beta,
but anything we would fix in a minor release can be fixed during beta
too.

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