PostgreSQL 8.5 Open Items

I'm not sure whether we ever posted this schedule anywhere official -
if so, I can't find it - but my understanding is that we have
consensus on the release schedule described here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01251.php

Under this schedule, the last CommitFest for the 8.5 release will
start 3 weeks from today.  As I think many of us remember, the last
CommitFest for 8.4 was extremely long and was followed by some amount
of further delay before we were able to go to beta.  I believe that we
have made a lot of progress in how we manage CommitFests this release
cycle, and I am fairly confident that we will be able to wrap up the
last CommitFest in a timely fashion.  I am personally committed to
doing whatever I can to make sure that happens and hereby volunteer to
manage the last CommitFest, unless someone else would like to take a
crack at it, in which case by all means feel free.

The open items list is a source of somewhat more concern for me,
because while patches can be bounced if we run out of time, open items
don't just go away.  I've added two items I know about here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.5_Open_Items

I would encourage anyone else who is aware of open items to begin
adding them to this list, adding sections as necessary.  Last time
around, we ended up assembling our initial list from a dump of one of
Bruce's mail folders.  I'm not sure whether that's the best way to go
about it, but if we're going to do it that way, we should do it SOON,
so that we start to get an idea what the must-fix issues are before we
get down to the wire.  We have a little time on any issues that are
must-fix for the final release, but the scheduled gap between alpha4
and beta1 is quite short, so anything that is must-fix for beta is
something we need to start thinking about soon.  We can't do that,
though, until we first have a list of items and a decision about which
ones fall into that category.

Merry Christmas,

...Robert