Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

Kevin Grittner escribió:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote: 
>  
> > The final CommitFest began November 11, 2008.  It closed March 25,
> > 2009 (+ 144 days).  Beta1 was released April 15, 2009 (+ 21 days).
>  
> I'm not entirely clear on what was happening during the 21 days
> between the end of the CommitFest and and the release of beta1.  I
> seem to remember Bruce saying that there were bugs being fixed, and
> that it didn't make sense to release a beta with known bugs of that
> magnitude, but I'm not clear on what was up with that.

That's nonsense IMHO.  We should have just released a version
documenting the known bugs, and asking for people to test the rest of
the system.

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