Re: 8.5 development schedule

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

I didn't bring it up because the schedule was kind of a first attempt
and it didn't make sense to try and tune it at that point.

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