Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
> > Huh, who has asked for a list from me?  This entire post is mostly
> > over-the-top and not worth responding to.
> 
> To quote myself:
> 
> > Post-CF:
> >     Make a list (now, not in January) of the tasks which need to be done
> > between CFend and Beta.  We'll find that some of them could be done by
> > someone other than Tom and Bruce, and that others could be done before
> > CFend.
> >
> > Beta:
> >     Create a mailing list (why don't we have a list for testers?  is
> > testing less important than the JDBC driver?) and a simple web app or
> > templated wiki page for testers.  Allow people to check in with which
> > version they tested (Alpha1,2,3, Beta 1,2,3) and what tests they ran,
> > and issues encountered (if any).  We should do this now so we can get
> > started with Alpha testing.
> >     When this testing gets into swing, we can also look at recruiting
> > volunteers to run various popular OSS apps' test suites against the
> > developing version of PostgreSQL.
> >     Once beta starts, have a list of pending issues in some
> > editable/commentable location (wiki is ok for this, or we can pervert
> > the commitfest app) *as soon as those issues arise* so that as many
> > hackers as possible can work on those issues. We did do a "pending
> > issues" list for 8.4, but not until we were already over a month into
> > beta, and then the list wasn't very accurate.
> 
> Therefore:
> 
> I will create a "cleanup issues" wikipage.  Please contribute to it by
> listing the *general* kinds of things you need to do between CF and
> beta.  Then we can look at which things don't need your special
> experience and could be done by other contributors.

That was a request for me to answer?  I had no idea.

The issues are different for every commitfest-beta period, so I have no
idea what to list there, but we do alway have an open issues wiki that
is maintained, at least for the most recent releases.

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