Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

Robert Haas wrote:
> Both committers and non-committers are currently suffering from the
> fact that there is not a lot of time in the year which is set aside
> for development, i.e. neither CommitFest-time nor beta-time.  To fix
> this problem, we can:
> 
> 1. Make CommitFests shorter.
> 2. Make CommitFests less frequent.
> 3. Continue developing during CommitFests.
> 4. Make beta cycles shorter.
> 5. Make beta cycles less frequent (i.e. lengthen the release cycle).
> 6. Continue developing during beta.
> 
> I believe (1) to be completely impractical and (3) to be
> self-defeating.  I suspect (2) will backfire badly.  That doesn't
> leave us with a lot of options.  We can certainly do (5), but the
> downside is that features that get committed won't hit release for a
> very long time.  I and others have suggested a couple of possible
> approaches toward (4) or (6), such as changing the way we do release
> notes, adding more regression tests to give us more (not perfect)
> confidence that the release is solid, and/or branching the tree during
> beta.  None of those ideas have gotten a single vote of confidence
> from you or Bruce.  What's your suggestion?

Another solution would be to make major releases less frequent.

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