Re: 8.5 development schedule

On 6/29/09 10:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Now that 8.4.0 is out the door, development for 8.5devel will be opened any
> day now.  But we haven't discussed the development timeline so far.  The core
> team has several proposals:
>
> CommitFest      Alpha
> Aug. 1          Sept. 1
> Oct. 1          Nov. 1
> Dec. 1          Jan ~~ 5
> Feb. 1          March 4
>
> Release ~ May 2010
>
> This puts us on track for a release at the same time next year, maybe a little
> earlier.

One thing Peter forgot to mention here is that the next-to-last 
commitfest is the *last* commitfest for new major features.  For the 
*last* commitfest, any patch introduced either has to be a resubmission 
of something we've seen at a prior CF, or has to be very "small" (i.e. 
not many lines/files, no side effects, no API or defined standard API).

This makes the next-to-last CF our "biggest" CF.

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