Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

Tom Lane wrote:
> Now to the extent that regular commit-fests keep patch development
> more closely aligned with the mainline CVS, the fest proposal might
> indirectly alleviate your pain.  But I'd think that snaps taken
> *after* the fests would be the best for that, as they'd be closer
> to what any subsequent development would be based on.  The stability
> argument I made doesn't seem like a problem for testing purposes,
> only if someone were to try to use such a snap for production purposes
> (which putting them up for archiving might encourage).
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It might be worth applying a simple tag (but not a branch) at the end 
(and maybe also at the start) of each checkpoint/fest/whatever

cheers

andrew